George Patterson wrote:
Then people should be posting about accidents that happened quite some
time ago,
not about current ones. You won't learn a thing here from the usual
speculation
on what caused a recent crash.

Ahhh, but you can learn a lot from many thoughts. I think speculation is
great (as long as it is labeled as such) because it causes people to think
'out the box' so to speak. For example, take the JFK Jr. accident.
Speculation was that his broken foot led to the accident. OK, so is it
possible for a bad foot to cause such an accident, let's think about it. Or
perhaps it was on autopilot and the autopilot malfunctioned - what warnings
if any would the pilot receive when/if the autopilot malfunctioned. How
many of us run through the *required* autopilot checks when we climb into an
autopilot-equipped rental? Perhaps JFK had a heart attack, could his wife
control such a hi-perf aircraft in those conditions? Makes you think about
having your wife/husband/etc spend an hour or two actually flying your plane
occasionally.

I also think that reading the NTSB reports is very educational, but why not
think of "what if's" too?

Hilton