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Old 13th December 2005 | 23:42
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arismount
 
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King Air "accident"

The Minnesota "accident" had little to do with icing conditions, though they were present.

The PIC allowed the speed to decrease when leveling off from a dive-and-dash nonprecision approach. The other pilot didn't catch it.

Totally the result of poor training and inexperience on the part of the second pilot, unfitness on the part of the PIC. Read the report and draw your own conclusions; I did and those are mine.

For you new men reading this, I highly recommend not removing your hands from the power levers when doing a dive-and-dash; in this way...hopefully...you are more apt to remember to bring in the power when leveling off.

This is an extremely high-workload period and there is many a pilot who has forgotten to power back up until the speed gets very slow. Most of them are able to recover and learn a lesson; the Minnesota mishap pilot was not and is dead.
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