RE: c117 crash
My condolences go out to the family and friends of those who were lost in this tragedy.
In 1966 my father, along with his passenger also died in his airplane after making some poor decisions as a PIC.
As we all know, flying is serious business, with clearly recognized and published limitations and procedure to equipment for the safely of all. Even human error is considered in procedures given all the safety redundancy built in. It is often the human personality that over rides all this and results in tragedy. This is apparently the case in this incident, given this statement in the findings. "The board also found channelized attention, overconfidence, expectancy, misplaced motivation, procedural guidance, and program oversight substantially contributed to the mishap." Tragic, preventable, useless, unnecessary, wasteful, are some words that come to mind and those are in relation to the crew. The aircraft and railroad section can be replaced, but not those men.
I hate seeing this stuff.
BTW, I'm glad they edited the video.