N72EX (Kobe Bryant) Crash Update-

[JimEli]

Originally Posted by aa777888

His training records can be reviewed at this link: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Documen...dacted-Rel.pdf

Trust me, I am very familiar with all of the NTSB docket information (see this long-winded post for background: N72EX (Kobe Bryant) Crash Reconstruction with new ATC Audio).

However, the point is, IEH added the tasks for unusual attitude recovery, and inadvertent entry to IMC to their training manual AFTER the accident, an egregious oversight by both IEH and the FAA POI, a violation of FAA policy and possibly FAR.

So, how did they train/evaluate these tasks in the S-76? Did the procedure address airspeed management, autopilot, diversion, abort, landing or emergency IFR? Because of the oversight, we don’t know. At best, they used a generic procedure, and at worst the instructors/evaluators did whatever they pleased. Or, did they even didn’t do it, absent published tasks?

Without a specific delineated procedure, maybe the accident pilot was attempting to perform exactly what his GOM (at the time) instructed him to do, “pilots will never take an aircraft into IMC…” As best he could.

All we know is the forms have a checked box on them.