Originally Posted by
Pittsextra
I don't know why having an opinion on this has any relevance to what the NTSB report will finally conclude.
The published documents are interesting and for all of the things that you say don't matter or are irrelevant, namely age and flight time, they are exactly the things Leeward exaggerated.
Now I don't know why you would at 72 years of age hand write your age as 59 as he did in 2009. You can say age is irrelevant but clearly he didn't think so.
Actually more than opinion you said that:
- the pilot was drunk
- he lied about his age
- he lied about his flight experience
- he lied about his age
- he modified his aircraft and did not test it.
About the age issue, could that be that the 59 is just a badly written 69? Would make sense.