(April 2011) If the souls of the pilots whose untimely ends are chronicled in NTSB accident reports could be assembled for a focus group on accident prevention, some would say of their final flights, “Yes, I was really asking for it. I should have seen that accident coming from a mile away.” Others would still be scratching their heads and wondering “What went wrong? It should have been so simple!”
In the latter category, I suspect, would be the pilot of a Van’s RV-10 who crashed in April 2008 on the way from Lebanon, Tennessee, to Lakeland, Florida, for the Sun ’n Fun fly-in.
