PILOT SPIN
Pilot Zone => Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) => Topic started by: PeterNSteinmetz on November 03, 2021, 05:39:38 PM
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Sounds like Coast Guard just suspended the search as it went down a few days ago. Long cross country, at night, over water, no flight following. Looks like the plane was a Dakota. If the tail number is correct, relatively new ownership. Person that was supposed to meet him called after he no showed.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/11...ch-cape-cod-coast-guard-nauset-beach-orleans/
Being discussed on PoA with the usual calls for more regulations.
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They deleted the page?
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Being discussed on PoA with the usual calls for more regulations.
Interesting how pilots criticize the broadcast "news" channels when they put some pseudo-expert on the air to speculate about an accident minutes after it happened, but then they themselves get on social media for their own speculation-fest.
Anyway, if wreckage is never found, how does the NTSB come up with a report? Without wreckage they can't actually prove that an accident even took place. (Yes, I know--radar tracks, etc. Theoretically a pilot could descend to wavetop height and then fly to his ultra-secret hideaway landing strip and begin an insurance scam, maybe.)
Understand I AM NOT suggesting that's what happened here. I think this really was a terrible accident.
Tim
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They deleted the page?
I think it is still there - https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/pa28-down-in-cape-cod.135064/
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Interesting how pilots criticize the broadcast "news" channels when they put some pseudo-expert on the air to speculate about an accident minutes after it happened, but then they themselves get on social media for their own speculation-fest.
Personally I think it is reasonable to hold the “professionals” to a higher standard than SRGOTI. Though frankly I think taken as a whole the discussions online are usually of a higher quality analysis. Mostly just a lot of people working on it.
Anyway, if wreckage is never found, how does the NTSB come up with a report? Without wreckage they can't actually prove that an accident even took place. (Yes, I know--radar tracks, etc. Theoretically a pilot could descend to wavetop height and then fly to his ultra-secret hideaway landing strip and begin an insurance scam, maybe.)
Good point. There will also be the issue with declaration of death of the victims.