"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:30:52 +0000 (UTC), Clark
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Stealth Pilot wrote in
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Ron
Acute in the medical sense is quite different from our usual meaning.
typically we laymen use acute to mean serious.
In medical terms acute just means 'of short duration'
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Nope. It means of severe and short duration so far.

Don't minimize this one. Bill was obviously way over the line to be flying
a
plane. If we try to hide it behind fancy words then we are doing ourselves
a
disfavor.

that's the problem. bill wasnt obviously anything. he could have had a
pair of knickers over his face or have been blinded by something in
his eyes. you leap to the drugs aspect as the cause.
the stupid canopy design used on the aircraft was a greater factor in
the accident than his blood chemistry.

ymmv
Stealth Pilot


Exactly, a safety catch that would only let the rear edge of the canopy to
rise a small amount would almost certainly have prevented this accident; and
a fixed windshield with sliding canopy would be safer still.

Peter