Am I alone in my disbelief at the apologists who are dreaming up idiotic excuses for this cretin? How can anyone even think of justifying this sort of behaviour?
He's under investigation for two - not one - TWO examples within the last 20 flying hours of such shocking airmanship that he's been reported - and by God you have to be convincingly dreadful to make an Air Traffic unit take such drastic action, but to do it TWICE???
He has virtually no experience and even less continuity, yet appears to be neither concerned or interested in his shocking performance above (any normal pilot would have gone back to the flying school for some refresher, wouldn't they?) and yet still takes pax on a jolly.
He's out of his box on recreational pharmaceuticals, (note dose OVER the usual "recreational" level, not under). He's put solvent in his fuel, fer Chrissakes, what kind of dipstick does that, stoned or not?? He then gets airborne without his harness secured, and then, on top of all this, fails to pay sufficient attention to his take-off while making a radio call to Bristol at under 200feet????? RT at under 200 feet?? Incredible, simply incredible! And take the time to read what he said on that RT call - no wonder he'd been reported for, amongst other things, gash RT. No wonder he'd attracted attention in the past with RT of that calibre!
IMHO this imbecile was a prime contender for a Darwin award, and has done society a favour by removing his DNA from the gene-pool. Remember, he volunteered for this, his poor passenger did not.
It is utterly tragic that his criminally irresponsible behaviour resulted in the death of a lad keen on aviation, and tragic too for the reputation of aviation itself.
Any one of the above aberrations would be bad enough on it's own, but to have all those stacked up together in one flight? No bloody wonder therre was an accident, it would have been incredible had one not occurred under the above circumstances.
No. There are no excuses for what he did. None whatsoever...
Last edited by Agaricus bisporus; 20th Mar 2009 at 13:16.