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In the rainy early morning hours of
Saturday, September 9 - about six hours before Hurricane Irma churned into the
lower Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm - 62 flight instructors at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University piloted a fleet of small airplanes to two locations in
Alabama.
The pilots, navigating 44 Cessna 172, 9 multi-engine Diamond 42, 8 Piper Arrow,
and 1 Beechcraft Baron aircraft through a thick band of rain, were grateful to
be hosted by Auburn University and Atlantic Aviation.
A new video conveys the urgency and complexity of Embry-Riddle’s fleet
relocation effort right before Hurricane Irma made landfall at Cudjoe Key on the
morning of September 10.
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