Barry Seal Part 1: The American Pilot
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Pablo Escobar couldn’t have reached the heights he did without smugglers willing to traffic cocaine by land, sea… and air. The story of Barry Seal starts in a bar in Baton Rouge in 1981. It will take us flying over the Gulf of Mexico all the way to South America, then back again to the South Louisiana swamps. This is the tale of the over-sized American airline pilot who gave up the dream of the white-picket fence to become the biggest home-grown narco-trafficker the United States had ever seen.
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So many inaccuracies about the aviation aspects of Barry Seal and his planes. He never flew 747s at TWA. He wasn’t made “command” of their planes based on his skill. It was seniority based. Flying at 120 knots would not be mistaken for helicopters in the gulf. The narrator made it sound like he was flying planes that normally fly 500 knots but with his incredible skill he flew them at 120. Wrong. His prop and turbo prop planes were easily flow at 120 knots and normally a bit faster, and not capable of 500 knots. And the Escobar series, also a bit annoying to hear the narrator mispronounce Avianca, Medellin, and attaché. Come on guys.