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  • Morli_ March 22, 2010 at 8:01am
    Yep, Well Said bGatti, funny thing is , news said pilot could not see as windsheild was covered with oil , then how did he find the beach( ok from side window while comeing in from different angle) , and glide in correctly and yet hit a poor guy.
  • bGatti March 22, 2010 at 7:49am
    I think the unstated argument of the FAA is that having a pilot makes the skies safer because the pilot is betting his life on the flight-worthiness of the plane, but there is a flip side illustrated here, which is that a human pilot may be willing to crash into a crowded occupied beach rather than ditch in the ocean in order to save his own skin. Were this plane unmanned, the ground pilots interests would have better aligned with the IPOD jogger.
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    Sgt Ric March 19, 2010 at 3:07pm
    Weird case altogether, I guess.
  • Morli_ March 19, 2010 at 2:38pm
    yep sgt, I was wondering about that too, all the news i read said plane lost the prop too !!?! ( i guess in the air else why would a prop strike on ground make a remark). I have never heard of that happening in air or did I read it too deep ?
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    Sgt Ric March 19, 2010 at 2:08pm
    Someone, (maybe here on DIY), said that the pilot had not replaced the oil cap properly before flight (?)

    Rumour only I guess, but another thing weird is that the pilot originally said the prop was "gone" even before the beach... watz up with that?
  • Morli_ March 19, 2010 at 1:11pm
    Just kidding Sgt, I know it is not NTSB report, even if the poor guy did not have Ipod , it would have been hard for him to hear a gliding aircraft without the prop coming from behind with noise of sea waves on the beach , wrong place at wrong time.... If at all some one needs to be blamed it is the pilot/builder who built it from it and obviously bad workmanship/quality I guess.It is sad to know a innocent bystander got killed
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    Sgt Ric March 19, 2010 at 12:16pm
    You do realize this was NOT the NTSB report (wait 12 months or so), just the wiki sites complilation of the facts so far.
    But ya, I guess the NTSB could list the IPOD as a contributing factor.
  • Ryan March 18, 2010 at 6:53pm
    Some people win the lottery, and some people got hit by airplane on the beach!

    What more is there?
  • Morli_ March 17, 2010 at 2:40pm
    correction, "and IPOD killed the jogger" . here is the aviation safety report
  • Morli_ March 17, 2010 at 2:37pm
    BTW where is the prop ? Looks like I was right , the oilcap killed the plane .... and one poor jogger. here is the story
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