Yeah I guess one of the Aerosmith band members had a family member who was a pilot and told them the plane was a piece of shit and not to contract it. It was also to be the last time Lynard Skynard used the plane as nobody liked flying in it. They had a LearJet lined up once they made it to Baton Rouge. The story I remember from Artemis Pyle is that Ronnie was passed out in the aisle, but when someone noticed fuel being jettisoned and an engine coming to a stop the plane shook violently waking Ronnie up who then got up and sat in the front not saying a word. On a side note, I ran into Steven Tyler and Joe Perry at a big gun show in Phoenix about twenty five years ago. They were buying a Browning M2 50cal machine gun prior to a show there that night. Quite some years later when Joe Perry wrote his book and was going around to Guitar Centers to promote it, I took one down to get signed by him for a friend who couldn’t go because of a scheduled chemo treatment. When I finally got up to him for a pic and signing, I asked him how fun the M2 they bought in Phoenix was to shoot. He laughed, put his hands up like they were on the grips and went, “puh puh puh puh puh puh”, then said, “That thing is so bad ass”! Of course the handlers were keeping things moving so didn’t get to go any further with it than that.