Crash at MYF today....

I was about to shoot the approach into MYF when they closed the field this morning.

When I did get to land there was a very broken C-182 on the side of Runway 23.

Any word on what happened?

Paul

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I was about to shoot the approach into MYF when they closed the field this morning.

When I did get to land there was a very broken C-182 on the side of Runway 23.

Any word on what happened?

Paul

This should help you.

http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=76584

The LiveATC feed for that area is down, so there's nothing in
the archives for it, and the SNA feed is too far north. But that
article should help.

Not that it should be a factor, but I do wonder about the age
of the pilot.. How old does the general public think is too old to fly?

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In article ,
A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

Not that it should be a factor, but I do wonder about the age
of the pilot.. How old does the general public think is too old to fly?


We discussed pilot age on the internal newsgroups of my ISP after
Scott Crossfield's crash, and the general feeling was he was too
old to fly.

The general feeling was "They let 84-year-olds pilot planes?" No
specific age cut off was mentioned, but other then Crossfield/Hoover
types, the general feeling was 80+ was too old.

John
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wrote)
I was about to shoot the approach into MYF when they closed the field this
morning.


http://www.airnav.com/airport/KMYF
(MYF) Montgomery Field Airport
San Diego, California, USA


"Mont"black

"John Clear" wrote in message
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In article ,
A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

Not that it should be a factor, but I do wonder about the age
of the pilot.. How old does the general public think is too old to fly?


We discussed pilot age on the internal newsgroups of my ISP after
Scott Crossfield's crash, and the general feeling was he was too
old to fly.

The general feeling was "They let 84-year-olds pilot planes?" No
specific age cut off was mentioned, but other then Crossfield/Hoover
types, the general feeling was 80+ was too old.

John
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John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/


That's why we have physicals and biannual flight reviews. To determine if we
are fit to fly. Flunk either one and you're grounded. Much more appropriate
than an arbitrary limit. Heaven knows that getting some arbitrary,
government mandated limit changed would be darned near impossible.

I can see it now... Someone discovers the fountain of youth and provides
the magic elixir to the world's entire population. It freezes their physical
abilities at 30 years of age, and enables them to continue improving their
mental function until whatever untimely accident or illness ends their life.
There could be millions of 100 plus year olds who are in the shape of a 30
year old with many times the knowledge, life experience, and mental ability.
Unfortunately, none of them could be airline pilots due to the Age 60
rule...

KB

John Clear wrote:

In article ,
A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

Not that it should be a factor, but I do wonder about the age
of the pilot.. How old does the general public think is too old to fly?



We discussed pilot age on the internal newsgroups of my ISP after
Scott Crossfield's crash, and the general feeling was he was too
old to fly.

The general feeling was "They let 84-year-olds pilot planes?" No
specific age cut off was mentioned, but other then Crossfield/Hoover
types, the general feeling was 80+ was too old.

As long as Congress has the same age limit. :-)


Matt

That's why we have physicals and biannual flight reviews. To determine if
we
are fit to fly. Flunk either one and you're grounded. Much more
appropriate
than an arbitrary limit. Heaven knows that getting some arbitrary,
government mandated limit changed would be darned near impossible.

I can see it now... Someone discovers the fountain of youth and provides
the magic elixir to the world's entire population. It freezes their
physical
abilities at 30 years of age, and enables them to continue improving their
mental function until whatever untimely accident or illness ends their
life.
There could be millions of 100 plus year olds who are in the shape of a
30
year old with many times the knowledge, life experience, and mental
ability.
Unfortunately, none of them could be airline pilots due to the Age 60
rule...

You've summed it up rather well.

In article ,
(John Clear) wrote:

In article ,
A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

Not that it should be a factor, but I do wonder about the age
of the pilot.. How old does the general public think is too old to fly?


We discussed pilot age on the internal newsgroups of my ISP after
Scott Crossfield's crash, and the general feeling was he was too
old to fly.

The general feeling was "They let 84-year-olds pilot planes?" No
specific age cut off was mentioned, but other then Crossfield/Hoover
types, the general feeling was 80+ was too old.

Nonsense! I have a friend, who was chief pilot for Eastern, who is still
feisty and flies at 90! Another cohort of his still flies his Bonanza at
100!

A Guy Called Tyketto writes:

Not that it should be a factor, but I do wonder about the age
of the pilot.. How old does the general public think is too old to fly?

What the general public thinks should not be the basis of any age
restrictions on flying.

Pilots slide off the runway all the time. Why is age not brought up
when they are young, but suddenly a factor when they are old?

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John Clear writes:

We discussed pilot age on the internal newsgroups of my ISP after
Scott Crossfield's crash, and the general feeling was he was too
old to fly.

The general feeling was "They let 84-year-olds pilot planes?" No
specific age cut off was mentioned, but other then Crossfield/Hoover
types, the general feeling was 80+ was too old.

Why is 80+ "too old"?

More generally, why do people consistently believe that anyone
significantly younger is "too young" to do many things, and anyone
significantly older is "too old" to do many things? Age really
doesn't matter that much.

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