Aircraft ditched off Whitby, Teeside UK
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I'm not 100% convinced it was suicide (nor am I 100% convinced it was an accident). Perhaps a few poor descisions, but not suicide. Granted, if I knew more about the guy, his family and his situation I might be swayed, but on the facts of it, I would say this was an accident
Does that change your opinion now you know this.
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if you had child porn on your computer and your wife was not implicated, would you take her with you on your suicide mission?
Could be either, suicide or accident.
If it was suicide, it was murder too!
Geez life can be horrible.....
Could be either, suicide or accident.
If it was suicide, it was murder too!
Geez life can be horrible.....
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snap . . . . . . ! !
If it was suicide, it was murder too!
BUT, after a few moments' discussion, agreed it could be suicide pact - NEITHER wishing to face up to the shame, etc.
Just a thought.
High humidity under the cloud base
While I am puzzled at how a conclusion of suicide can really be drawn from that AAIB report (a PAN then Mayday call, wife as passenger, water contamination, attempting to return to the coast), I did learn something tonight which is so obvious 
but I had never considered it before.
Yesterday afternoon, as I was scooting only 100ft under the cloud base of 2,100 ft in the south east of England, I never for a moment considered that I was probably flying in 99% humid air - and was therefore exposing myself to a higher than normal chance of developing carb ice.
Yes - I know the theory of temperature lapse rates & how clouds form etc, but until I saw it in black and white in Fig 1 of the AAIB report - I had never made the connection.
Although I was applying carb heat during my regular FREDA checks, and I don't believe I actually suffered carb ice - it is certainly a lesson learned !
but I had never considered it before.Yesterday afternoon, as I was scooting only 100ft under the cloud base of 2,100 ft in the south east of England, I never for a moment considered that I was probably flying in 99% humid air - and was therefore exposing myself to a higher than normal chance of developing carb ice.
Yes - I know the theory of temperature lapse rates & how clouds form etc, but until I saw it in black and white in Fig 1 of the AAIB report - I had never made the connection.
Although I was applying carb heat during my regular FREDA checks, and I don't believe I actually suffered carb ice - it is certainly a lesson learned !
