Even More on the JFK, Jr. Airplane Crash

Your statement of the facts and reiteration of the NTSBs probable cause explain the situation well. Missing, though, is digging into the true causes of the situation. Without examining them, its impossible to answer the question in your subtitle, nor to explain to those myriad non-pilots what really happened and why.

Editorial Staff

Monday, July 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM ET

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The opening sentence of your article on JFK, Jr.’s crash (“Revisiting JFK, Jr.,” June 2016) was right on the mark. I’ve been traveling across the country and back over the past two weeks in my Mooney, and had a chance not just to talk with pilots and non-pilots in various flying and nonflying settings, but also to take a friend for his first significant general aviation flight (Wisconsin to Maryland). As you wrote, the subject of the JFK, Jr. crash came up on this trip—a few times.