NTSB final report on Hendrick crash

Sam Spade wrote:

Maule Driver wrote:
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Huh? "How to use and not use a GPS' lessons seems to be written all
over it. But if you just want to knock the pilots, then nothing will be
learned. My personal conclusion and lesson is that you need to stick
with your primary navigation instruments and use the backup as backup.
But that's me.


There are no new lessons to be learned from this accident. Because of
the lack of a CVR the NTSB is being speculative about the use of the GPS.

Sam that is perhaps the case with most accidents. I hear "We must
learn from this." In most cases yet the mistakes are recurring ones.
Maybe a listing of pilot screwups would help yet I suspect that you
won't reduce accidents much.

Technology can help in some cases. Even a simple Garmin with terrain
functionality, especially if there is an audible alert, may prevent
some accidents yet not flying in those conditions works 100%.

Personally, I would prefer to quit hearing about "We can all learn
from this fatality" and have those experts determine how to prevent
them in the first place.

Ron Lee