Originally Posted by
slawecki
a long time ago, we were flying out of BVI on a small, 4 engine plane that i cannot find. loading was from the rear. the plane was a little over half full. everyone sat in the rear. the tail went down. the pilot came out, and rearranged the passengers. the pilot was the president of the airline. the tail came off the ground, and we flew to soju with no incidents.
plane had 4 Lycoming engines.
Years ago flew San Juan to St. Croix on Prinair, a Puerto Rican airline. They used to fly all over the Caribbean. They flew the 4 engine piston/prop de Havilland DH.114 Heron. Acording to wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Heron some had Lycoming engines. The Heron was known for sitting on its tail if too many pax sat in the back rows.
