To: Aeronaut
That is what I thought and why I wondered about this lawsuit.
I try to keep informed on aircraft accidents and their cause. As a pilot, I want to learn from the errors of others and hope to prevent myself from making the same stupid blunder out of ignorance.
Until the NTSB makes their final report, how can anyone declare that it was pilot error?
29 posted on
08/28/2003 7:52:52 AM PDT by
Hunble
To: Hunble
Until the NTSB makes their final report, how can anyone declare that it was pilot error? They always preface it with "probable cause" even in the final reports.
31 posted on
08/28/2003 8:50:32 AM PDT by
Aeronaut
(In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
To: Hunble
My brother, who was an accomplished pilot with well over 25,000 hours logged, was killed in a plane crash back in April. He reported engine problems and needed to shut it down or the engine would blow up. Well, the initial report from the NTSB is pilot error. I guess he shut the engine down a couple of seconds too soon. He missed the runway by a few hundred yards.
I think it's easy to place blame on the pilot.
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