On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:10:59 -0700 (PDT), spanky
wrote:

On Sep 21, 8:50*am, Stealth Pilot wrote:
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:42:22 -0700, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

The NTSB has released the factual report:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?...5&ntsbno=WPR09...

This is the usual precursor to the final report, which usually contains
the same information with the addition of the NTSB's Probable Cause.

Ron Wanttaja

according to that report of the accident it shouldnt have happened.
there was nothing wrong.

Stealth Pilot

...hate to disagree with you, but there was something very wrong,
apparently, with the most important component in the aircraft: the
pilot. According to the tox report, he had everything from Tylenol to
Valium to Vicodin to two different types of codeine derivatives to
FloMax to Ziloprim (and then some) in his system. He should never
have gotten out of bed, much less behind the wheel of a car or the
yoke of an aircraft. I knew Bill well enough to know that he probably
thought he could handle it. Events proved otherwise.

S McF

actually I meant problems (unserviceabilities) with the aircraft.

btw if you have been taking medications for some time the body adapts.
it is possible to have high levels of medications in the blood stream
that have next to no cognitive effect on the individual. ask doctors
involved with long term pain medication or think to involvement with a
chronic alcoholic. the blood assay gives levels of drugs in the
individual but gives no real indication of the effect they have on the
individual. dont jump to conclusions without having some idea of the
medication history.

Stealth Pilot