JIM RIMER 1968 - 1983 PILOT DEN Husband of DEN flight attendant Sally Fisher Rimer and father of DEN station agent Kent Rimer. Blown Tires If this incident is the same as the one I remember, Duane Cook was the Captain and Jim Rimer was the F/O. Actually, it wasn't a case of blown tires, it was a case of maintanence management going cheep and buyin lousy re-treads. The treads left the airplane and Duane and Jim ended up landing on the rims on the #2 side as I recall. They did a superb job. Sadly, Both Duane and Jim have lined up on Runway 27 for their flight West. Jim many years ago from a heart attack and Duane a couple of years ago. Duane Had gone to CO after the UAL - FAL debacle. Jim had a son that was a F-16 pilot now with United. Another son was with America West in a non-flying capacity some time back (I don't know where he went though) and a third son was a Navy pilot (as I recall). All three were GREAT kids. If you knew Jim Rimer, that wouldn't surprise you. -Billy Walker (1/31/99) The blown tire incident occurred August 5, 1982 at DEN. Flight 194 to Atlanta with 97 passengers and 5 crew members blew both left main tires on take-off. Duane was Captain and Jim FO - both were 58 years old. They burned off some fuel and came back in so smoothly that 95 of the passengers boarded the next flight out. Super job by both pilots. It was a new aircraft that Frontier had received 6 weeks before. Info from DENVER POST, 8/6/82 courtesy of Ken Schultz (The newspaper must be wrong about the ages because the SSDI lists both born in 1934 so they would have been 48) -Jake Lamkins (10/4/99) I didn't visit Duane Jake, I called him at the hospital.  He sounded happy to hear from me but I don't recall what day it was.  He died within a few days of my call, but I'm glad that I got to speak to him. As for Jim Rimer...... don't know the cause, but Jim was a good man. Flew S/O when I was F/O on B-737.  -Clyde Hart (10/5/99) I was flying with Jim Rimer his last trip, and I recall that he just wasn't feeling well the whole last day. It was more like just feeling tired or having indigestion. Later, we heard that he had gone home and had a heart attack either at home or after his wife took him to the hospital. Nice guy to work with. I remember his wife calling me later wanting to hear anything that he might have said or done on the last trip just to give her some peace of mind and closure. -Donna Harrison (11/24/00) JIM RIMER Born 18 Oct 1934 Died Nov 1983 Age 49 At 80014 (Aurora, Arapahoe, CO) SSN isued in Missouri -SSDI (5/12/03) Jim Rimer died Nov. 28, 1983 -Ken Schultz (Ken sent the FL bulletin about Jim's death.) (8/27/05) Our son, Michael Neff just uploaded our copy of Frontier's 1982 B737 Emergency Landing (flight 190) in Denver on his u-tube website. Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0SMHMpBYfA&feature=youtube_gdata_player -Carol and Bill Neff (1/27/11) Link posted at Facebook and FL Club: There's some great FL history at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0SMHMpBYfA&feature=youtube_gdata_player from August 5, 1982. Thanks to Michael Neff, son of Carol & Bill Neff (FL FA & pilot) for posting it. Co-pilot Jim Rimer died next year on Nov 28, 1983, age 49, of a heart attack. Captain Duane Cook died May 10, 1994 at age 59 -Jake Lamkins (1/28/11) J W RIMER Pilot seniority date of 4/29/68 on the 9/1/81 FL/ALPA Seniority List. -Jake Lamkins (2/4/11) Subject: Updated memorial webpage JIM RIMER 1968 - 1983 PILOT DEN http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Jim_Rimer.html Found several items on Jim and a pic. Still need an obituary. -Jake Lamkins (2/4/11) FLacebook - FL Club FLight West: Jim Rimer DEN pilot Jim Rimer's memorial webpage has been updated at http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Jim_Rimer.html His son Kent's webpage was just posted so I updated his. Both flew west too early in life. -Jake Lamkins (4/9/18)