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Missteps, Equipment Problems and a Common but Risky Practice Led to a Fatal Crash
Here is a link to a current report in The New York Times, and hopefully available to non-subscribers.
I cannot summarize it with excerpts here, as it is too extensive and detailed. The report is remarkably informative, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in aviation safety.
Excellent article. I’m not currently a NYT subscriber. I was granted access with a notation that this was “a gift from someone you know.” Thanks OJ.
The reader comments are interesting - some quite heated. I’m left wondering why someone was “training” to fly choppers at night near a very busy airport which was understaffed while civilian crew and passengers on a regularly scheduled commercial flight were descending to land? How might one feel if a “trainee” were piloting the American CRJ as it came in for a landing? (Yes, unduly harsh I suppose)
Smaller private “civil aviation” aircraft mixing with larger faster commercial flights at some airports is a different - but perhaps similar - risk I’ve long worried about.
Another interesting observation: The “trainee” at the controls of the chopper held a higher military rank than the “instructor” seated next to her. Wonder about the human dynamics iin such a situation?
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The reader comments are interesting - some quite heated. I’m left wondering why someone was “training” to fly choppers at night near a very busy airport which was understaffed while civilian crew and passengers on a regularly scheduled commercial flight were descending to land? How might one feel if a “trainee” were piloting the American CRJ as it came in for a landing? (Yes, unduly harsh I suppose)
Smaller private “civil aviation” aircraft mixing with larger faster commercial flights at some airports is a different - but perhaps similar - risk I’ve long worried about.
Another interesting observation: The “trainee” at the controls of the chopper held a higher military rank than the “instructor” seated next to her. Wonder about the human dynamics iin such a situation?