A36 crash

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...18X00470&key=1

A brand new one. Ouch. There go the insurance rates again.

Dan Luke wrote:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...18X00470&key=1

A brand new one. Ouch. There go the insurance rates again.

Don't you mean "Ouch, there goes someone's Dad, someone's brother, someone's
son..."? (change sex if pilot was female)

Hilton

Dan Luke wrote:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...18X00470&key=1

A brand new one. Ouch. There go the insurance rates again.


A fellow with a four month old private pilot's licence flying an A-36. I'll be
curious to find out what really happened. Preliminary findings are that it was
VMC at 2015 hours (getting dark?) and that it had just been serviced that day.
All sorts of possibilities come to mind.

It'll be a year before the NTSB releases final findings, and even then it'll
probably be wrong. My heartfelt condolences for those he left behind.




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE

("Dan Luke" wrote)
A brand new one. Ouch. There go the insurance rates again.


http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...18X00470&key=1

Accident occurred Wednesday, April 13, 2005 in South Bay, FL
Aircraft: Raytheon Bonanza, registration: N448T
Injuries: 1 Fatal.

Witnesses reported the pilot had flown the airplane to Tampa earlier in the
day to have it serviced. The airplane was on the return leg of a round-robin
flight when the accident occurred.

FAA records indicated that the airplane was issued an airworthiness
certificate on April 5, 2005. The airplane's estimated total time since new
(TTSN) is approximately 25 hours.


Montblack

"Hilton" wrote:

Don't you mean "Ouch, there goes someone's Dad, someone's brother,
someone's
son..."? (change sex if pilot was female)

I expected this.

Of course it's tragic that someone lost his life; do you need me to point
that out?

This is a flying newsgroup where issues pertinent to the world of (mostly)
private airplanes are discussed. The loss of a $600k single-engine, piston
airplane is a significant event in this small world. It raises issues that
are on topic in this forum, that's why I posted the link and put it in the
context I did.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote:
A fellow with a four month old private pilot's licence flying an A-36.

Yes. That is a lot of airplane for a newbie. Plenty of people have bought a
Bo' and successfully learned to fly in it, but we don't know what this pilot
trained in.

I'll be
curious to find out what really happened. Preliminary findings are that it
was
VMC at 2015 hours (getting dark?) and that it had just been serviced that
day.
All sorts of possibilities come to mind.

Perhaps the kind of service performed is a clue. What if he had been having
trouble with the HSI, for instance?

It'll be a year before the NTSB releases final findings, and even then
it'll
probably be wrong.

They may not have much to go on besides circumstantial stuff.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

Having lots of money can buy you almost anything... except experience.

Dan Luke wrote:
This is a flying newsgroup where issues pertinent to the world of (mostly)
private airplanes are discussed. The loss of a $600k single-engine, piston
airplane is a significant event in this small world. It raises issues that
are on topic in this forum, that's why I posted the link and put it in the
context I did.

Exactly. The issues that this incident brings to light beyond the tragic deaths,
(which happen every single day X100 on the highways of this country) are what
your post was about. I (and 95% of the other readers) realize this are were
not "offended' by your post.

Perhaps the kind of service performed is a clue. What if he had been
having
trouble with the HSI, for instance?


Pretty hard to imagine how a faulty HSI would cause loss of control--
even in inadvertent IMC....

--
Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

kontiki wrote:
Having lots of money can buy you almost anything... except experience.


Well, he's had an experience I'd just as soon avoid.




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE