#4139704 - 06/26/15 09:07 AM
Re: Sightseeing plane crashes into Alaska cliffs killing 9 onboard.
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Actually that is a large plane.
Could have been any number of things; weather, pilot error, mechanical, ... All flying has some level of risk. Accident investigation will tell us more, but I think we'll never know for sure; no black box, very unlikely RADAR, possibly GPS, ... Could be as simple as pilot error in turning radius in valley and that is why he crashed into the face. Winds in the mountains and valleys can exceed the planes performance ability.
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#4139740 - 06/26/15 11:44 AM
Re: Sightseeing plane crashes into Alaska cliffs killing 9 onboard.
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How does that happen? Humans aren't infallible and flying a plane will always involve a certain level of risk regardless of the precautions taken.
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#4139763 - 06/26/15 12:51 PM
Re: Sightseeing plane crashes into Alaska cliffs killing 9 onboard.
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The footage I saw of the area where the ship itself was indicated a lot of fog.
No TFR on those things, so if the cliff was in a bank of cloud that the pilot thought would end before reaching the cliff...
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#4139767 - 06/26/15 12:57 PM
Re: Sightseeing plane crashes into Alaska cliffs killing 9 onboard.
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I often wonder how people can even still ask questions like "How can this plane have crashed?".
It's not an airliner full of passenger, here, with highly sophisticated systems and followed up by a ground radar, it's a GA plane, with no radar, nothing. Anything can go, from human error to mechanical problem, including bad weather, anything, as people have stated before me. It's like asking how can a car crash...
Murphy's Law says, "Whatever can go wrong, will, and when you least expect it." (And, of course, we all know that Murphy was an aviator.)
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#4139800 - 06/26/15 01:43 PM
Re: Sightseeing plane crashes into Alaska cliffs killing 9 onboard.
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#4140011 - 06/26/15 09:13 PM
Re: Sightseeing plane crashes into Alaska cliffs killing 9 onboard.
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How does that happen? Humans aren't infallible and flying a plane will always involve a certain level of risk regardless of the precautions taken. Very true. I remember when I was based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and we were called out to take the department to a crash site near Gurney/Alotau. The pilot, flying a BN Islander, had taken off from there earlier in the day, flown along the ridge line near clouds and then for no apparent reason turned into the ridge. No witnesses to the final part of the flight but there were earlier. Something like six people died in that, and no-one knew why.
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#4140016 - 06/26/15 09:31 PM
Re: Sightseeing plane crashes into Alaska cliffs killing 9 onboard.
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Sightseeing accidents are often the result of operators pushing the envelope as far as weather..to allow their customers to get what they paid for. Inadvertent IMC is a real threat, even on VFR days...especially near mountainous terrain where there are localized clouds.
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