the Carter accident
Helimutt, and others.
I read the AAIB report carefully and completely.
I am still left with a conundrum that hopefully someone can help me with.
Up until the accident, he seems to have done everything absolutely perfectly.
He's mature, he's got 8,000 hours, he's got all the right ratings, he's current, he's done all the checks he should have done and so on and so on.
The aircraft is fully able to cope with these conditions and was fully functioning.
The weather, albeit challenging, wasn't un-expected or unknown.
And there were options to continue, climb or divert.
So, under these conditions, what is it that can still lead to this tragic outcomes?
I'm not looking for any smug or trite "error of judgement" quipes, --- of course it was an error of some sort to hit something hard at 60kts ---
It's what leads up to that error that I'm interested in. The AAIB doesn't really help here, and although I never knew the pilot, I'd reckon he was a lot more competent than myself.
Big Ls.