Originally Posted by
Contract Dog
Was a flight plan filed and who with? why did atc not pipe up and say something? (not blaming them at all) but even though they would have been out of their air space, you would have thought somone would have noticed? IFR in single piston? is that allowed on charter?? not the last time I checked. Even in positioning flights when I used to fly a 206, atc would not allow it at IFR levels?
Definitely far beyond ATC duties and responsibilities.
The flight was conducted in Class G airspace where ATC can't "allow" or "deny" anything but only provide flight information if able. Also notice that topographical information is not readily available to ATC.
A guy filing and flying a straight line from A to B through high ground...
IMHO this accident can be blamed to poor preflight planning, if there was any.