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Originally Posted by DaveJ75
I take it all back... the AAIB report of G-CFMY isn't any better frankly: 'The lack of climb could be an indication that the pilot was starting to feel unwell or simply that there were no thermals in this area' I don't want to comment further on a clearly very sad event but the report is close to meaningless.
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Originally Posted by UV
The report contains a lot more factual information than you imply.
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Originally Posted by rb14
Although I'm not sure how true this sentence is, from early on in the report: "He landed in a field near Ruffin". I'm guessing they're referring to the town of Ruthin, North Wales, which is pronounced Rith-in and sometimes Ruth-in (the 'u' as in 'tug'). Of course it might be that François Ruffin, Member of the French National Assembly happened to be in the field at the time. But you'd think they might have mentioned that.
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As someone who knew the pilot of G-CFMY I welcome the report because it explains, in detail, what happened. We now know that the cause of the tragedy was medical incapacitation. He was regarded by his peers as an exceptional soaring pilot, and so the accident was both a shock and a mystery. He was also one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet.
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Originally Posted by Mr Optimistic
Not my line of work but used to reading process reports. I thought the final paragraph in the BH accident report was rather ' unusual'.
