NTSB: Lack Of Weather Info Doomed Scott Crossfield

Bob Gardner wrote:
I wasn't able to attend the NATCA "Communicating for Safety" conference
in Atlanta this year, but they webcast it and made the webcast available
online at www.natca.org/safetytechnology/cfs-live.msp. Downloading all
of the sessions and playing them back is incredibly time consuming but
very much worth while. The first session gets into asking controllers to
be more forthcoming with weather information (and for pilots to ask for
it if the need is there); no names or tail numbers were mentioned but
Scott Crossfield's accident may well have been one of those discussed.
As always, Bruce Landsberg of the Air Safety Foundation is an excellent
communicator of the general aviation community's situation vis a vis ATC.

If you want to know the challenges that controllers face, and how in
many cases individual facility managers deprive them of critical
information, take a look.

Bob Gardner

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...ml?CMP=OTC-RSS


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."



Did you know all the weather frequencies in Georgia(EFAS)
were broke that day along Scott's flight path??

Big FAA secret

Check it out

It's hard to get info when the frequency is BROKE