His boat was found floating, empty, with his log-book open charting the depths of his despair.

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While it still looks pretty good from certain angles, the log-book shows that the wheels fell off completely just five months ago.

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Other industry experts, meanwhile, think the FAA isn't necessarily too cozy with the airlines--it's just too short-staffed and under-funded to enforce every procedure in the log book.

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The explanation - that Raissi made a mistake in filling his log book, that he had flown in the Piper not on March 8th, but March 9th, a date which tallies with flying hours that were also logged.

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