NTSB Preliminary report on HPN crash

Tom Fleischman k wrote:

Now can you honestly say that you find nothing disturbing in any of this?

Now look who has misinterpreted what he has read. I never stated that I
found nothing disturbing about this accident. All aircraft accidents that
result in fatalities are disturbing to me, as they are to any pilot.

What I did post was this:

"I honestly didn't see anything that stuck out as *really disturbing* such
as drugs, alcohol, or a blatant mistake."

BTW, my statement was posted before the group figured out that the
instructor had an expired medical, assuming the report about his age at 45
being correct. In hindsight, the fact that his medical had expired by a
month (Class III expires in two years from March '03, right?) was somewhat
interesting for a large flight school such as AF. Did it expire because of
oversight or did it expire because the instructor had a condition that
wouldn't allow him to pass? We don't know.

Also, being unfamiliar with the approach, I would agree with you that
flying below the glideslope and not going missed as this aircraft did would
indicate a mistake, but when taking all of the aircraft accidents of this
type into account, this particular one has yet to stand out as *really
disturbing.* IMO, of course.


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Peter


















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