Originally Posted by
Spooky 2
These kind of Part 91 accidents are all to common. The passengers were made up of a closely knit LDS family, as well as a successful business group. Sounds as if they had been on a bird hunting trip in the area as it is well known for that activity. Just because you can afford this kind of aircraft does not make you immune to this kind of accident.
There was another PC12 several years ago that crashed up near Butte, Montana. (?) Same thing as it had more pax than seats. Sounds as if this might be more common than one would think?
Yes. I have friends who have long had a distressing habit of pushing their luck with flights like this in the family/family business plane. As seems to be the case, here, there's a pilot in the family who steps in for these flights, which lets them leave the company pilot(s) at home. It doesn't do any good to tell them that discretion is
always the better part of valor.
I see, in the local story linked by BlankBox that "Maule Rossow [the state's attorney for the county] said at the time of the crash weather conditions included 'strong winds and snow.'” "Blizzard conditions" were reported around the area and Interstate 90 was closed for some time.