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279 Poor Decision Making Kills Airline Pilot in C150 Crash + GA News

Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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279 Poor Decision Making Kills Airline Pilot in C150 Crash + GA News

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279 Max talks about an accident that highlights how external pressures, fatigue, and poor decision making can doom even a high time, professional pilot. An experienced airline pilot crashed a Cessna 150 near the airport of intended landing around 10 PM. He and his teenaged son had been flying all day, and had experienced an electrical failure, so they were unable to turn on the airport lights.

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0:00.0

Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk General Aviation with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe.

0:09.5

I'm Max Truscott.

0:10.6

Today we'll be talking about a tragic accident in which a high-time airline pilot, who was moving a Cessna 150 across the country, died in a fatal accident that also killed his son. And we'll talk about

0:22.5

the cascading series of red flags that should have led him to alter his plan. Sadly, he continued

0:28.1

on until he was boxed in a corner with no remaining options. Last week in episode 277, we talked

0:35.0

with CFI Chris about his accident that occurred on a first flight with a new owner as they were preparing to bring his new aircraft home and about how external pressures and stress played a role in that accident.

0:46.1

We also had a mailbag episode, episode 278, in which we talked about propeller safety and checklist usage.

0:52.7

So if you didn't hear those episodes,

0:59.8

you may want to check them out at AviationNewsstalk.com slash 277 and slash 278.

1:04.1

And so that you don't miss next week's episode, go to whatever app you're using to listen to me now. Take a moment right now. Touch that subscribe or the follow key so that next week's

1:09.7

episode is downloaded for free.

1:11.8

And this is a listener supported show.

1:13.6

So if you've been listening for more than a year and have learned a few things from the show,

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I'd like to invite you to become a member to join the club to support Aviation News Talk.

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Just go out to AviationNewstalk.com slash awesome.

1:29.0

And you can sign up for whatever contribution level you'd like. And when you do, I'll read your name on the show. And of course,

1:33.1

we have a link for that website in our show notes. Coming up in the news for the week of June 12th,

1:38.0

2023, the FAA is slated to approve 91 UL unleaded fuel for much of the GA fleet.

1:45.7

NBAA calls for more crew rest for charter pilots, and United has announced plans to fly

1:51.5

EVTALs around a major U.S. city.

1:54.2

All this and more, and the news starts now.

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