IB needs remedial flying lessons
IB started taking flying lessons in 1975 and she got her license later that same year. Yesterday afternoon, she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was piloting when she was forced to make an emergency landing in DC because of bad weather. Some could call it a crash; an accident at the least.
National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a preliminary determination citing pilot error contributed to the accident, and IB was flying a single engine aircraft (a basic model, at best) in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating) rating.
The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on board. No one on the ground was injured.
Photographs below were taken at the scene show the extent of damage to her aircraft.
She was very lucky.
National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a preliminary determination citing pilot error contributed to the accident, and IB was flying a single engine aircraft (a basic model, at best) in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating) rating.
The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on board. No one on the ground was injured.
Photographs below were taken at the scene show the extent of damage to her aircraft.
She was very lucky.
