Aftermath

In December 2019, a Canadian-registry Piper Aerostar 602P with three aboard left Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, Mexico, to return home to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The group stopped overnight at Chino, California, east of Los Angeles—perhaps to visit the aviation museum there—and continued the next day to Nanaimo with a […]

Several colleagues knew of a pilot’s limitations before a fatal 767 accident.

Some accidents arrive entirely without warning, and it is hard to know what or whom to blame.

An adventurous pilot falls for his aircraft with fatal results.

Uncertainty makes for an accident waiting to happen.

If you don’t know where it went, is it really gone?

Twenty-five years ago, a Seattle-area pilot tried to do his mother a favor. He would take her to visit a friend on the other side of the Cascades. Their route would go through the Snoqualmie Pass, which, on the day of the trip, was unfortunately beset by fog and low-lying clouds. The pilot was instrument-rated, […]

One takeaway from this tragedy: Altitude is the best defense.

Pilots are endowed with the right to take risks.

When an accident’s cause is not easily found.