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Originally Posted by Air&Road
Yeah, John John was killed by his own elitist attitude. With a couple of hours under the hood he thought he was a hot shot instrument pilot. He thought he was smarter than everyone else and didn't need all that instrument training to fly in the shlt for real. That kind of attitude probably comes from living in the Whitehouse.
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Really hate the Kennedy's dontcha??
I think that maybe you have applied your own bias and now bear false witness.
Other pilots flying similar routes on the night of the accident reported no visual horizon while flying over the water because of haze. The pilot's estimated total flight experience was about 310 hours, of which 55 hours were at night. The pilot's estimated flight time in the accident airplane was about 36 hours, of which about 9.4 hours were at night. About 3 hours of that time was without a certified flight instructor (CFI) on board, and about 0.8 hour of that was flown at night and included a night landing. In the 15 months before the accident, the pilot had flown either to or from the destination area about 35 times. The pilot flew at least 17 of these flight legs without a CFI on board, of which 5 were at night. Within 100 days before the accident, the pilot had completed about 50 percent of a formal instrument training course.
NYC99MA178
Mayhap he was not as experienced as others, but calling the accident the result of arrogance and elitist attitude is just mean spirited. And as evidenced, he was currently enrolled in a formal instrument training course.