Originally Posted by
Easy Street
I want to know that, too. My example would be a driver who's just caused a terrible road accident through poor judgement and claims cognitive impairment.
Another interesting case is the F-18 that crashed in Bethalto, IL. June 19, 1996. The pilot was a Navy Top Gun, Navy test pilot, then Boeing test pilot doing a practice run through for a Chech air show, and went over the top of a reverse half cuban 8 at much too low an altitude (about 1500' AGL as I recall.) The only thing the investigation could come up with was he had flown a similar routine the previous weekend in his Pitts Special, where 1500' AGL would have been fine.
How could a guy with THAT MUCH experience make such an error?
Jon