On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:12:27 -0500, "John A. Weeks III"
wrote:

In article om,
"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote:

rip, lost a brave one today...1st to mach II

I am somewhat interested in hearing the final determination
of the cause of the accident. From my arm chair, it kind of
looks like such a intelligent and talented pilot made a rookie
mistake by flying into weather.

-john-
Well, looking at the FAA preliminary database, the last radio call to
the pilot was "Cleared to Deviate South for Weather"

http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/a...a/B_0421_N.txt
(the last entry).

On flightaware, it shows he made a pretty good deviation
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N6579X

Maybe it just wasn't enough.
--Rolf