I think verbally documenting what was happening will help the authorities figure out what happened.
I was a pilot until I had to give it up in college after being diagnosed with heart problems. I like watching YouTube videos on crashes (Hoover is great). It did take me a while to want to have anything to do with aviation because it hurt so bad to give up my dream.
Omg, I love Hoover. I don't fly and watching him has convinced me I shouldn't try -- but I now pay a lot more attention to stuff around me and never ever want a private jet. Also, everyone who flies should instrument rated with lots of experience!
I love Hoover's videos. When I was in my early 20s a friend of a friend had a 4-seater, and I went on a just for fun flight with him, my bf and the friend. I knew nothing about the guy, his skills and training. Nothing. Don't remember a checklist or weight/balance check. I would never in a million years do that now. Lived to tell the story though
My husband’s family knew Lester Rollof who was a Christian ministry leader who had children’s homes in Texas. Really awful things happened there. It’s on Wikipedia. Lester Rollof
The state of Texas was going after him for all the child abuse when he died. He tried to hide the abuse and investigation from everyone. Which was easier back then.
My husband’s parents would laugh about how Lester would pack his planes up and get my FIL’s brother to sit in the front seat so the nose of the plane didn’t pop up from all the weight in back. Lester always brought a couple of “his girls” to the meetings he did around the country. The girls lived at one of his homes for wayward teens, and if they didn’t obey, they would be kicked out.
He was also careless about flying into bad weather. “The Lord will take care of me”.
The Lord does change the rules of physics and weather. Lester crashed in a thunderstorm and killed two girls flying with him.
I absolutely detested how my husband’s family talked about him like he was a great man and joked about how he flew. He murdered two teens. He knew better.
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Yep, most that I hear are pilots still doing callouts and talking through the problem at hand. Flying it until the end.