51.   Individual buyers read up on the jet and listen to what their pilots say, but in the end they make a personal decision.

52.   Local pilots said the crash struck them as strange.

53.   Many of them have small radio towers jutting from the rooftops, the pilots said.

54.   Many pilots say they are also uncomfortable with the idea of armed off-duty pilots on their airplanes.

55.   Loss of the tail fin would have made it impossible to fly the plane, pilots said.

56.   On his questionnaire, Mackey observed, the pilot had said he considered life in prison without possibility of parole to be like a death sentence.

57.   Pilots said they fear that if airborne crop-dusting becomes too unreliable, ground rigs will get the work.

58.   Pilots say the industry should consider armored door systems or a double-door system with one door always locked.

59.   Pilots say they understand the cost pressures.