On 21 Dec 2006 14:45:01 -0600, T o d d P a t t i s t
wrote in
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"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

There was no pilot on board according to the NTSB.

The pilot was unlicensed. The concept of "pilot" predates
the concept of licensing people to engage in that activity
by many years.

So, while the person at the controls of the aircraft may be considered
to have been piloting it, he was not an airman. :-)