Stop guessing...
I find it truly disheartening that we are so quick to make ANY determination regarding this accident, even though we consider ourselves “professionals”. It’s so sad to see the ignorant posts about Michael Doran NOT being Instrument rated or perhaps not current. I happened to know Mr. Doran and he WAS Instrument Rated and he WAS current. He was also Multi-engine rated as the last few posts have indicated. The sad thing is that the people posting the early threads didn’t even bother to do the 3 minutes worth of research to find out Mr. Doran was indeed IFR Rated. Sure, there was 200ft overcast, but that's not really a big deal. In the North East we fly in these conditions constantly and as long as there aren’t thunderous activities in the vicinity, it’s just IFR folks. It’s what we’re trained for. IFR is IFR and if we're in the soup starting 200 or 2000 feet… what's the difference? Why don’t we allow the NTSB Accident Investigators to do their jobs, and stop trying to guess what happened and write completely made-up stories and theories? This goes the same for blaming Cirrus, let the NTSB do their job and worry about your own safety for now... meanwhile, respect the fact that 2 young Men lost their lives and have grieving loved ones mourning their loss. For the post about the “murder”, shame on you CantWait2Navigate… shame on you.