Yes, lets take a minute and really think...If someone had been flying from that pilot station they'd have heard Malcolm call "deadstick". There were also other people there that could have helped the person who "could have been" at that pilot station to move back a few steps if need be. Don't over-dramatize the situation. Just think what would happen if a 4-ton tiddlywink landed on someone's head - they could be injured or killed.

It looks to me like Malcolm did everything he could under the circumstances. A flameout is a flameout - he was immediately upfront about the details of the incident and is actively trying to determine the cause of the flameout. The same thing could have happened (to YOU, or anyone else) if it were a gas or glow powered aircraft - so how does a turbine waiver have anything to do with this situation? Are you tallying the crashes of each turbine waiver holder or something? If you really need an answer to your "question", why don't you email or write the AMA and ask them instead of posting yet another of your bashing and/or inflamatory posts. Seems like a large percentage of your 17 posts have been very similiar - almost trollish, methinks.

Questioning someones ability to safely fly a turbine aircraft, based upon a crash caused by a flameout is ridiculous.

Sorry about the Lightning Malcolm. Chin up, man...

Rusty