I have a hunch that when I finish telling you about what happened to a Piper PA-34-220T Seneca II, you'll take a close look at your airplane's emergency checklist, if you can find it. You know, it's that thing you may have misplaced, or maybe never even bothered to photocopy from the airplane's documents, or maybe didn't bother to rewrite into a really useful, quick-to-access, easy-to-use format. If it's logically formatted, worded to trigger the proper actions and printed in type large enough to be easily readable day or night when bouncing around in turbulence, an emergency checklist just might make the difference between a tragedy and a happy ending. It would provide just enough of a clue to trigger a eureka moment, which gets you to start thinking and looking and doing the right thing.
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