On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 01:42:36 +0000, Dave Hyde wrote:

It's all a matter of when stuff gets filed. NTSB prelims for the
past 10 days or so are way behind what the FAA has reported.
Always have been.

Just take what they say with a grain of salt. It seems the prelims are
not very accurate. In the MBY case they made it sound like the guy got his
gear stuck in the mud which then made him run off the runway.

If they even bothered to look they could tell the guy lost control of the
plane on landing right after he locked up the brakes to avoid hitting the
equipment on the side of the runway, I mean how do you get 3 skid marks
unless you're sliding sideways? He was screwed well before he got into
the mud, if anything the mud saved the idiots life.

Ever since I saw how they reported it and having seen it firsthand I now
realize that whatever the prelim says, don't bank on it. I'm not sure
where they get the info they report because it ain't based in reality.

I'll never trust them again after this report.