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Old 22nd March 2010 | 14:55
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remoak
 
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People that draw their own conclusions based on the very limited facts they have turn out to be very ignorant.
Leaving aside the incomprehensible grammar, let's look at this objectively.

I can only think of four likely causes. We'll leave weather out of it as it doesn't appear to have been a factor.

1. It was a post-maintenance test flight and something went catastrophically wrong.

2. It was a training flight, and the trainee mishandled a simulated emergency and the check pilot couldn't recover in time.

3. It was a training flight, and there was a real emergency that neither pilot could recover from.

4. It was a training flight, and there was a catastrophic failure that neither pilot could recover from.

The only scenario that puts the crew beyond blame is the sudden, catastrophic failure. Anything else should be able to be handled in this class of aircraft, particularly as it would have been very light. If it does turn out to be a mishandled simulated emergency (which I think it will, but don't know for sure), the question becomes why were they doing it at a dangerous height? Have we really not learned from the many other accidents of this nature?

Should we turn our brains off and wait for the report? Well, you can if you like. It is hardly a professional thing to do, but whatever floats your boat.

In my experience, these things usually turn out to be pretty much what they look like. It's a bit like investigating an accident where an aircraft has run out of fuel (and there have been plenty). The report will take a year to come out, but it will simply conclude that the aircraft ran out of fuel, a conclusion that should be blindingly obvious to anyone who can form coherent sentences. Do you really need the report to come to that conclusion? Well, you might, but I don't.

One of the persistent problems in aviation is the refusal of pilots to objectively evaluate the role of their colleagues in accidents. It is a form of denial that is more prevalent in GA than the airlines, because the airlines get it and try and train it out of their crews via Human Factors training.

It is not a pleasant thing to consider that a friend and colleague may have messed up, but a professional pilot will make an informed judgement and move on. It's how we prevent ourselves from repeating the mistakes of others. The report just confirms what we (should) already know.
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