"Dave Stadt" wrote in
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"Skywise" wrote in message
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"Tom Conner" wrote in
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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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Boy, nothing like a nice day in Feburary to put GA in the news. I was
watching channel 10 in Sacramento last night. They opened with 3 GA
accidents...

http://www.kxtv.com/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=15902
3) Cherokee in San Jose has engine trouble (or something like that).


I don't think this was in San Jose. San Jose, at Reid-Hillview, had a
plane crash onto Tully road after running out of fuel. A few seconds
earlier and it would have crashed into Eastridge Mall. RHV is one
crash away from closing and this had the potential to be the one. Its
also the 2nd RHV crash in a month where the pilot ran out of fuel.
The other landed on 680.

So the airport is responsible for stupid pilots forgetting to gas
up their planes and therefore should be shut down? Must be gov't logic.

Brian

No but stupid pilots forgetting to gas up provide the ammunition and two
in a month would make anybody stand up and ask questions. Sometimes a
mirror is needed to find the problem.

I agree that the fault lies with the pilots in question.

But it is false logic to use a rash of accidents, which is most
likely nothing more than a statistical fluke, as the basis for
attacking the existence of an airport.

Flip a coin. Odd's a 50/50 for heads or tails. Flip it a hundred
times. There's bound to be a sequence of all heads or all tails
for several times in a row. Taken out of context, does a rash of
15 heads in a row mean that the coin is two headed?

Heck, that isn't even right. By the logic expressed earlier, a
run of 15 heads on a flipped coin would mean the bank is somehow
at fault, and should be shut down.

It's a total disconnect.

But then, that seems to be one of humanity's strong points.

Brian
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