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[CoffeeIcePapers]

There is no easy solution, but at the core of the matter is the fact that the airplane's shaker activated well above stall speed and the PIC stalled it into the ground. We have be honest with our selves if we want to learn from this. He screwed the pooch. He isn't the first or the last to do it. As you mentioned, pilots screw the pooch a lot and it doesn't end up in a fatal accident, but we have to at least start with the primary cause and look at the factors leading up to it. Only if we are honest about what happened can we move forward.

Obviously, there were a lot of contributing factors to the accident, but the primary reason it crashed is because when the shaker went off the pilot yanked back on the yoke and stalled it.

Although this is a TV show, there are direct quotes from the investigators who actually worked on this accident:

 

[Firebird2XC]

AKA the guy that has stayed at the same place longer.

Exactly. That's how seniority works.

 

[PositionAndHold]

There is no easy solution, but at the core of the matter is the fact that the airplane's shaker activated well above stall speed and the PIC stalled it into the ground. We have be honest with our selves if we want to learn from this. He screwed the pooch. He isn't the first or the last to do it. As you mentioned, pilots screw the pooch a lot and it doesn't end up in a fatal accident, but we have to at least start with the primary cause and look at the factors leading up to it. Only if we are honest about what happened can we move forward.

Obviously, there were a lot of contributing factors to the accident, but the primary reason it crashed is because when the shaker went off the pilot yanked back on the yoke and stalled it.

Although this is a TV show, there are direct quotes from the investigators who actually worked on this accident:

I think we agree, just in a different way. I'm more of an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure kinda guy. Preventing the airplane from getting to the shaker is aviating, recovering from a stall is reacting. At that point, the airplane is flying you. Train that and you'll prevent stalls. If you prevent stalls you don't need the recovery. The FAA, the airlines and places like FSI need to concentrate on creating aviators not airplane drivers. (Yes I do think you need to know the proper way to recover a stall, I'm just trying to explain my point of view.)

 

[Dphoenix]

It's easy to just blame "pilot error" and say he reacted inappropriately, which is true, but keep in mind how he got to that job. Gulfstream Academy, pay for training - both of them were Gulfstream alumni. Add in illness, fatigue... bad combination