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Old 08-15-2010, 05:42 AM
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The professional pilot view of accidents is that every accident is preventable. So, if a pilot makes a mistake because he is over tasked, the initial error was likely a lack of training to make him more capable, or a poor decision to enter a situation where the tasking was likely to overwhelm him. Accidents involving pilot error always track back to an error in judgement in the chain of events leading up to the incident.

Up until now I have resisted the urge to speculate on what happened in the Roush crash other than to say it looked like he was trying to dance around taking responsibility for the crash. But IMHO, this crash was not caused by him being "overwhelmed by inputs." I believe the most likely cause was the pilot got too slow while trying to keep spacing between his aircraft and the aircraft landing in front of him. If the spacing had gotten too tight, Roush would have been forced to go around and come back for another shot at landing. In an attempt to avoid that, I suspect he got much slower than his usual approach speed and stalled the aircraft near the ground. I don't state this as a fact, but as the opinion of a highly experienced pilot who has saved countless student pilots from stalling their jets during landing attempts.
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