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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
If you read the article you would see that he had 310 hours.
My father used to sell a lot of auto insurance. He said the insurance companies know that a very high percentage of single car accidents are actually suicides but they cannot prove it. So it is not absurd, I don't think.
So you both feel that he was arrogant and perhaps elitist, but from reading the Wikipedia that does not come across to me. It comes across to me that it was an avoidable accident. He flew out not knowing how bad the conditions were, had the radio frequencies wrong so presumably had no communications available, perhaps believing the radio was broken. It certainly seems within the realm of being a tragic accident not necessarily an arrogant act.
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Yes I had read it, but when I was writing about the killing zone I did not remember if it was over or under 350, but I remembered it was 3 something.
Tom, he was flying over his head. The report and circumstances CLEARLY indicate that. I am sorry that it happened and that it happened to someone that you obviously can't come to grips with him being fallible, but he obviously was.
The report even clearly states that he experienced spatial disorientation. In instrument training it is DRILLED into your head to trust your instruments. The reason for that is so that you can fly in the event of spatial disorientation. If he had been instrument competent, he could have flown while experiencing it.
I know you think that I'm just some idiot, but this is the truth.