NTSB: Lack Of Weather Info Doomed Scott Crossfield

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The NTSB on Thursday released its final report on the plane crash that
killed famed aviator Scott Crossfield last year, with an unusual dual
finding of blame, citing both Crossfield's failure to ask for weather
updates, and air traffic control's failure to give them to him. Crossfield
crashed on the morning of April 19, 2006, in Ludville, Ga., while flying
alone in his Cessna 210. The safety board's determination of probable cause
is: "The pilot's failure to obtain updated en route weather information,
which resulted in his continued instrument flight into a widespread area of
severe convective activity, and the air traffic controller's failure to
provide adverse weather avoidance assistance, as required by Federal
Aviation Administration directives, both of which led to the airplane's
encounter with a severe thunderstorm and subsequent loss of control."