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Old September 21st 09, 11:10 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
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Default NTSB Report on Bill Phillips' Accident

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