On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 6:55:00 PM UTC-7, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 3:26:19 AM UTC+12, wrote:
Your reply was cut off, and I definitely want to hear the rest of the story.

I found the court's account quite educational from a safety standpoint, yet riveting from a personal standpoint. Reading through the court's account of how to decide the pre-impact pain and suffering--the thoughts and feelings that must have been in their minds those few seconds--sent a chill down my spine.

I'm sorry for all involved. What a tragedy.

I'm quite troubled that the court ruled it's too much to expect a licensed pilot to be able to successfully execute a go-around without stalling and crashing.

The decision was assignment of liability for the accident's cause, not a test of the deceased pilot's emergency responses. The judge considered this and rejected it. What it boiled down to is the Baron had the right-of-way. It is like someone ran a red light and you hit him. The other guy can argue that you might not have hit him if you had swerved, or applied your brakes sooner and more aggressively, but he will lose in court.

Tom