411A , voor degenen die PPrune reeds langer frequenteerden is deze nom de plume geen onbekende. Verguisd en bewonderd in vaak een en hetzelfde topic.
8000 posts dacht ik.

Ik heb het genoegen gehad hem persoonlijk te kennen. Hij wist alles, en dan bedoel ik ook echt alles, van 707's en Tristars.
Je kon hem dan ook des nachts bellen om wat te vragen over deze toestellen en het antwoord kwam er altijd voorbeeldig uitrollen.

Hij had een merkwaardig hoge stem voor een man met zijn achtergrond waarvan je zou verwachten een diepe, wat rauwe bas te horen.

411A, zo worden ze niet meer gemaakt tegenwoordig.

Hier een korte obituary, courtesy Pprune.

411A has flown west. 19th Apr 2011, 08:07
innkeeper68 Join Date: May 2008 Location: swamps Posts: 15

To those who have communicated, praised, disagreed and even dueled with 411A:
Captain Bob Welliver had his last Margaretta at the ex patriot gentleman's club in LaCeba, Honduras, in the company of a long time friend and flight engineer (ron butts) on 1 April, 2011. He died of a massive coronary heart attack talking about the L-1011 with drink in one hand, cuban cigar in the other.

Bob was the chief pilot of nasser's L1011-500 operation, privilege jet airlines. the fleet is honduran registered but jordanian owned. the stress of a charter gone wrong due in a distant land that nasser set up did not help.

he was cremated in honduras and his remains were flown home to phoenix. plans for a memorial service are in the works. his "flight gone west" was supersonic and I am sure the landing was perfect.

some people live safe, eat properly and leave a good looking body is the way to go. In my observation of Bob, smoking hand rolled only, drinking top shelf, long hours, strange places that most people would never think of going, "masterful interpretation of flight rules, systems, MEL's and flight planning" to get a plane home, allowed Bob to gracefully ignore (no, thumb his nose) at the good looking body theory of funerary tradition.....It was more like Cohiba in one hand, magnum of South African wine in the other, body worn out to the "last 25 landing tire thread limit", sliding, hooting, screaming and howling with laughter all the way to the grave saying...."man, that was one HELL of a ride!"

Rest in peace......doubtful. heaven, purgatory or hell just got a tad more interesting. have fun and puff one illegal cuban for me.

De rest is hier, http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/449191-411a-has-flown-west.html

Cheers
Art