Frab I have said it before. The risk generated by the flight planning ban may cause one accident every 50 years - that means we could have another 19 years before extra fatalities. But why take the risk when the problem is do easily fixed?
Your view may be that my time could be better spent elsewhere - my view is different.
Many posters on this site seem to be obsessed with keeping the status quo.
What wrong with changing rules from time it time if safety can be improved .
Check. Re post 354. Sounds like a classic controlled flight into terrain - which is the most common cause of fatalities by professional pilots in this world.
Contributing facts are the lack of radar coverage resulting in pressure on the pilots to depart into E airspace without a clearance - that is VFR
This clearly shows the USA has areas without radar coverage . In fact over 50% of US IFR approaches commence below radar coverage.
By the look of it BASI made no recommendations at all after the MDX crash. Why could that be? Yes. Offend people who resist any change.