"Ice, pilot’s decision blamed in NJ crash" by David Porter | Associated Press, April 12, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. — A pilot’s inability or reluctance to fly quickly enough out of icing conditions led to a fiery plane crash on a New Jersey highway median that killed all five people aboard, a federal report published Thursday concluded.
Okay, accepting at face value, the first thought is what is with ice on wings in the middle of April, fart-misting fanatics?
The December 2011 crash killed pilot Jeffrey Buckalew, an investment banker; his wife and two children, and Rakesh Chawla, a colleague at New York’s Greenhill & Co....
Ooooooooh! Now I'm wondering why they had to be silenced.
The plane had departed Teterboro Airport en route to Georgia when it began spiraling out of control at about 17,000 feet and crashed on a wooded median on Interstate 287 near Morristown. No one on the ground was injured. Wreckage was scattered over a half-mile area, forcing the closure of the busy roadway for several hours.
If it spiraled down and crashed.... why would wreckage be over a half-mile?
Was a bomb on board, folks?
The National Transportation Safety Board report concluded that while Buckalew had asked air traffic controllers to fly higher and out of the icing conditions, he may have been reluctant to exercise his own authority to do so or may have been unaware of the severity of the conditions.
Is there anyone out there who believes any report coming from the U.S. government anymore? Show of hands, anybody? Not even back there? O-kay.
As for not exercising his own judgement when he is at the wheel, so to speak, doesn't pass the smell test. He was a pilot, and since when have investment bankers been so shy about exercising their judgment on anything?
The NTSB attributed the cause of the accident to ‘‘the airplane’s encounter with unforecasted severe icing conditions that were characterized by high ice accretion rates and the pilot’s failure to use his command authority to depart the icing conditions in an expeditious manner, which resulted in a loss of airplane control.’’
Yeah, thanks for all the bogus weather reports from several government agencies regarding the fart fumes.
Ice can form on airplanes when temperatures are near freezing and there is visible moisture, such as clouds or rain.
The ice adds weight to an aircraft, and rough accumulations known as rime interrupt the flow of air over wings.
Ice and sub-freezing conditions in the middle of April?
Either way... who farted?
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Related: Globe Tells the Truth About TWA 800
A one-day wonder buried in a sea of Globes. It would be years later when I came to learn that plane crash causes are not as claimed by the corporate pre$$.
