Ali,

I appreciate your response and what you say is very true about throttle management - for everyone and every manufacturer out there. The problem I have understanding your response as it relates to FEJ is that for the most part a curtain percentage of jet flyers of all makes, not just FEJ have and always will (as discussed not necessarily the best thing but do anyway) over throttled their jets. This happens across the spectrum of manufacturers available. The problem is that FEJ, given that this speed problem is universal to all pilots and all manufacturers, is having a disproportionate amount of airframe failures compared to the rest of the pack.

The other problem with this argument is that Lewis is not known to over speed his jets. At least I have not seen him over speed one of his jets. Now I was not in attendance during the previous two failures he experienced but the times I have seen Lewis fly the flights are very conservative.