295 Social Media Storm: The Tragic Flight of a Kentucky CFI with Catherine Cavagnaro +GA News
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
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Max talks with Catherine Cavagnaro about a crash in Kentucky last week that killed a young CFI and his student. The crash was tragic on multiple levels and gathered a lot of attention online because of the CFI's social media posts made throughout the flight that demeaned the student. The CFI even documented the line of thunderstorms they flew into before the aircraft broke up in flight. We talk about the many things that were wrong about the flight and the need for better CFIs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk in general aviation, with relevant |
| 0:06.3 | news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. Find back, |
| 0:10.0 | Scott. Today we're talking with Catherine Kovignaro about a crash that occurred in Kentucky |
| 0:14.6 | last week that killed a young CFI and his student. Now, the crash was tragic on multiple levels |
| 0:20.5 | and gathered a lot of online |
| 0:21.9 | attention because of the CFI's social media posts made throughout the flight that demeaned |
| 0:26.8 | the student. The CFI even documented the line of thunderstorms they flew into before the aircraft |
| 0:32.7 | broke up in flight. Last week in episode 294, we took you along for a demo flight and the new Diamond |
| 0:39.0 | DA50 RG. I spent about an hour flying that fun aircraft, and if you didn't hear that episode, |
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| 1:22.8 | Coming up in the news for the week of October 2nd, 20203, |
| 1:27.3 | AOPA Senior Vice President Richard McSpadden has died in a plane crash. |
| 1:33.3 | Shocking video has emerged of a light twin spinning to the ground, and a Vermont man is arrested for stalking a woman in his Cessna 180. |
| 1:36.2 | All this and more, and the news starts now. |
| 1:42.1 | From AOPA, they write, we are deeply sadden to report that Richard McSpadden, |
| 1:47.8 | AOPA, senior vice president, died in an aircraft accident outside Lake Placid, New York, on Sunday afternoon. |
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