Originally Posted by
Pittsextra
What if the cost of the aircraft was invoiced 30 days later... pilot is dead, invoice just becomes due how does he pay or how do you prove his intention to pay?? All this is irrevelant noise. Pilot porked it in poor weather for all the crazy reasons people do that same as the instructor in Glos. Reported on recently... AAIB saying same things changes nothing
Pitts, this flight operated to a schedule. Sala was always due to leave on that date at that time regardless of the circumstances. Dave Ibbotson, unless he had a crystal ball, could not have guaranteed to conduct a flight under VFR to a schedule. That made him a dangerously reckless pilot. The circumstances that turned him into a dangerously reckless pilot are just as important as the reasons why he did a spiral dive into the Channel.