Engine Trouble on Cessna Forces Ed Schultz to Send Mayday, Land on Remote Airstrip in Canada
Radio and cable host Ed Schultz came through a close call on Sunday after his Cessna 206 blew a cylinder while he was flying home from his fishing lodge in Canada, forcing Schultz to land on an abandoned airstrip in the Canadian wilderness.
Schultz told his radio listeners about the incident at the end of his three-hour radio show yesterday while interviewing frequent guest and sponsor Mark Graff, president of a company called Bio Green Clean that sells cleaning products. (audio)
SCHULTZ: Mark Graff, I have something to clean.
GRAFF: And what is it?
SCHULTZ: My Cessna 206.GRAFF: OK, well get started, buddy.
SCHULTZ: Well, I can't, it's up in the Canadian wilderness. Have I got a story for you.
GRAFF: Go ahead.
SCHULTZ: So we're coming home on Sunday, a little weekend of fishing, right?
GRAFF: Hmm hmm.
SCHULTZ: We're at 3,500 feet. (makes sound like engine conking out) We lost cylinder number four.
GRAFF: Well, that's time to find religion right there, boy.
SCHULTZ: My faith was in Bio Green Clean, only if I could get this son of a gun on the ground. And I tell you what, we're over terrain that ain't good. But I'll be doggone, talking to some folks on the radio, I did a mayday, I got a hold of a buddy of mine who just happened to be on the radio, Sean Jackson (sp?). He directed me to an airstrip, an old abandoned airstrip in Manitoba. But for about 10 minutes, that aircraft was running on five cylinders. And we were lucky to get her down, case closed, everything fine, you know, didn't land on a highway, didn't stick it in a tree, nobody hurt, aircraft fine, everything else.
But let me tell you something, when that number four cylinder went and we had to put the baby down, it had oil all over it! So we're stuck out in the Canadian wilderness and I'm thinking, well now what are we going to do? 'Course I carry a satellite phone with me wherever I go 'cause you never know what the heck's going to happen and lo and behold it did happen.
And so when you go through something like that, your life flashes in front of you and Wendy (Schultz's wife) was in the back seat, here come the tears and then here come the prayers and she's in good with the Lord, so doggone it, we got a safe landing, I love that.
But anyway, we got on the ground, you start talking about, well, what are we gonna, you know, you debrief the whole thing, right?
GRAFF: Well, I'll tell you, you need ...SCHULTZ: And then I said, honey, look at this?! Look at, holy smokes, well Bio Green Clean's going to take care of that and we all started laughing. (laughs) So, I got a job to do. It's sittin' up there, I don't know, it's on the strip up there in Canada somewhere as to where we were and so now I gotta go up and clean it.
GRAFF: Ed, you need to get rid of that Republican mechanic. (Schultz laughs)
Better still, consider hiring one.
Ed, if you're reading this, I'm happy that you and your wife are OK after such a harrowing experience, and I write this with no snark whatsoever.
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Let me be the first to say....
Submitted by Jarhead68 on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:04pm.
I'm happy for his family that he came through it unscathed. He's still a dumbassed, progressive, commie, pinko, Obama-slobbering fool.
Add hypocrit*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:10pm.
He flies in his own Cessna to his fishing lodge in Canada while he demands "we" pay more taxes. hurrrrrmpfffff
Yeah, glad you are safe,
Submitted by Nortonalec on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:11pm.
now stay in Canada!
NOOO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O....
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:33pm.
We have too many like him as it is!!!
Ed must love Canada to own a lodge up here (why is that, Ed?), but no, I can't reciprocate.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
im not
Submitted by no you cant on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:26pm.
next time the engine should be made in china, from plastic, powered with wet fuel. lets see red ed walk out of the backcountry.
thought
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:10pm.
Thought he and his leader didn't much care for jet owners. After all, he blabs about those filthy rich white guys daily on his show no one listens to. Wonder who he will blame for this threatening experience...and also wonder who is in charge of the maintance of her personal plane??
Something else to clean...
Submitted by BuffNBone on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:12pm.
... is his seat cushion--or maybe he just squeezed a doughnut off it.
The pilot would know, eh?
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:18pm.
Good one, Buff.
Years ago, my FIL had a fly-in place in Canada north of International Falls, MN. It was a fabulous place, but we had to fly in everything (including propane), it was like 25 miles from the nearest road.
Back before satphones...it was much more "exciting" to go. There were no doctors around, in fact, the nearest phone was a full day away and included portaging maybe 5 lakes. My BIL had an accident with a chainsaw one year...it was a close run thing.
Sgt. Shultz ought to be kissing the ground for his satphone, else he'd still be hiking around in the wilderness up there. He'd be hugging those trees for real.
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Can We ask Canada to keep him
Submitted by John21 on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:13pm.
I know that this would be a serious problem and curse for Canada but it is a nice thought. Like the last comment I am glad for his family that he is unharmed but I really wish it was in a really remote spot in Canada and it would take a week or two before he can bore us to death with stupidity.
I didn't know that he was one of the private aircraft owners that his god (Obama) is complaining about so much, maybe he is the cause of the huge deficit that Obama blames on them
Why...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:35pm.
...do you wish us ill will?
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Canuck,
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:43pm.
We will trade you a Schultz for two buses - fully loaded (both Schultz and the buses)
Glad he and his wife are okay too
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:15pm.
.
Special Ed ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:18pm.
... get a more powerful aircraft or lose the fat a$$. You can only ask so much of an airplane, Lardo.
Glad to hear your wife made it.
Wasn't it George Snuffalufagus who said recently, "companies that go overseas as a result of high taxes in America are unpatriotic" as reported right here on this very blog today?
So Special Ed, why do you have a "fishing camp" which I do believe is a commercial venture for you where you charge money to kill fish (is that destroying the environment?). Do you pay any taxes in the USA for that? Bet not. Do you ever take needy inner-city kids up for a weekend of free fishing? Bet not. Do you ever give your private plane over to Angel Flight for sick kids to get to their doctors? Bet not. Do you forego the tax breaks that "rich corporate plane owners" get from the government which your boy, Bambi, thinks are the primary reason we are in debt up to our ass? Bet not. Do you even worry a little about the noxious fumes that you spew out of your aircraft which runs on (gasp) fossil fuel? Bet not, you hypo(crite).
What kind of damned liberal are you, Special Ed?
Schultz
Submitted by Scott Trent on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:23pm.
You know, we just might be... ah... never mind. Schultz is a putz, hack...
ed...there's always NUTRI SYSTEM
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:26pm.
might be the fat ass.......
Glad nobody got hurt - but I have questions.
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:33pm.
First: Was he actually aiming for Canada, or was that an excuse? Was Mexico his actual destination?
Second: How will he blame this on George Bush?
Third: Did Obama lead the rescue team?
There is much to ponder...
- Grump :o)
Sounds like Special Ed had a
Submitted by Bhaal on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:32pm.
Sounds like Special Ed had a brush with Karma. Maybe it's telling him what goes around, comes around? He's been spewing alot of "Negative waves" to quote Oddball from Kelly's Heroes.
Ed needs to go see his Cessna dealer and work out a trade
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:42pm.
Dump the 206 for a Caravan.
It has much more power, a much higher useful load, and the fact that it's a turboprop means he won't have to worry about over-stressing the engine as much when it's trying to haul his fat ass into the air. :-)
Just a suggestion.
-Dave
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All kidding aside...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:38pm.
...Glad you made it in one piece, Ed.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
In all honesty this sounded
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:41pm.
In all honesty this sounded more like a commercial for Bio Green instead of a true story. Are we sure it is true? He lies all the time why should we believe this? Sounds fishy. Abandoned airstrip in the remotes of Canada? He sure got home quickly enough to edit the sound bite by Gov. Perry.
If his wife is in so good with the Lord what is she doing with his lying ass?
If the shoe was on the other foot
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:53pm.
Notice how no one here wishes ill on Schultz. Contrast that with how the left responds to a near miss by a conservative/Republican.
P. S. Hey Schultz, where's your green transportation?
Anyone else seeing the ad on this page?
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 3:20pm.
ATP for a multi-engine pilot rating?
Too funny!
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J,
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 3:34pm.
LOL - I don't think they make a twin with enough power to keep Ed in the air on just one engine.
-Dave
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Did Boortz go off on him?
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 4:13pm.
I can only get 2 hrs of Boortz rebroadcast. Did he go off on Shultz? I know from this and other comments he has made that he had absolutely no use for him.
rick,
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 7:24pm.
I was out all morning and didn't get to hear Neal's show.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Shouldnt you open up the Choke by now?
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 6:45pm.
"Well it runs better with it Choked a little bit". Famous last words.
Those engines are bullet proof, either he doesn't take care of it, or he is using ethanol, or running it, too rich. Either way, stay out of his plane!
Boudin
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 7:56pm.
As I said above I really doubt his story.
where's the corroboration on Ed's 'story'?
Submitted by texasborngranny on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 6:56pm.
where's the corroboration on Ed's 'story'?
who picked Ed and wifey up from the abandoned airstrip?
it's not like Ed's never lied on his show before...
Too bad he couldn't have
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 3:02am.
Too bad he couldn't have traded places with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper!!! And the Big Bopper would make Shultz look like a little leager............
Ed's not operating on all cylinders
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:11am.
In the air or on the air.
Ed
Submitted by bertkillian on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 6:42pm.
Dammit Ed! Don't crash the damn plane! We would all lose one of the biggest forms of entertainment going these days; you and your Grand Canyon sized mouth!