Three-Mile Limit: Novice Pilots Succumb to the Perils of Total Darkness
Departing Key West unexpectedly in February 2012 cost two Polish nationals their lives in a Cessna 172.
Departing Key West unexpectedly in February 2012 cost two Polish nationals their lives in a Cessna 172.
Helicopter pilot’s fixed-wing inexperience proved costly in a desert mountainside crash that killed four.
Shortly after the airplane named ‘Maid of Money’ took off in December 2000, snow began to fall, and winds picked up to 50 knots.
Rather than reverse course, a former Marine continued to turn until he was heading into the dark unknown of bad weather in 2020.
Remember that an airplane does not instantly recover airspeed that’s lost in a wind shear.
There’s quite a difference between
simulated IFR and the real thing.
A fatal 2019 King Air 350 accident near Dallas exhibited all the signs of a random pilot error.
A flight into poor weather conditions turns out to be a real ‘wash job’ after all.
The NTSB links a potentially preventable Cessna 337 Skymaster accident in remote Alaska to an inadvertent stall.