Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
If the holder of the student pilot licence was in fact just a passenger on the flight, the fact that s/he was a student pilot licence holder is completely irrelevant and the currency or otherwise of his/her medical certificate is completely irrelevant, unless there was some causal connection with the accident. Indeed, it would be completely irrelevant if the PICs medical certificate was not current, unless there was come causal connection between a medical condition suffered by the pilot and the accident.
I read it that perhaps they are suggesting that there were two pilots in the aircraft and neither of them was able to stop the spin from happening. I was trying to think as to why they would have mentioned that, however looking back at previous crash reports, it appears to be common to mention pilots as passengers.