Learjet 60 crash in West Palm Beach

Wardogg said:
This is why I think the FAA may react on this one. At least with 135. Us 91 guys are a bunch of cowboys anyway.

“Rules? Where we’re going we don’t need rules”
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I’m not so sure. It’s bad to say, but I don’t think 9 deaths (especially with none of them being famous) move the needle enough for the FAA to take action. Be clear, I’m not minimizing the 9 deaths, but I think the regulators are.

Unless someone political takes this up, like Schumer did after colgan, this won’t go anywhere. Also, the general public is not affected. This is seen as a rich person’s problem. Unlike airlines which are mass transport for the public. In short there is no money or political capital to be made, so I don’t see any changes.

Sad to say.
 
mwflyer said:
I’m not so sure. It’s bad to say, but I don’t think 9 deaths (especially with none of them being famous) move the needle enough for the FAA to take action. Be clear, I’m not minimizing the 9 deaths, but I think the regulators are.

Unless someone political takes this up, like Schumer did after colgan, this won’t go anywhere. Also, the general public is not affected. This is seen as a rich person’s problem. Unlike airlines which are mass transport for the public. In short there is no money or political capital to be made, so I don’t see any changes.

Sad to say.
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Didn’t the FAA knee-jerk the new revocation of single pilot exemptions for the CE-500 series on the Greg Biffle crash?

Once again enacting a rule that wouldn’t have prevented that tragedy.
 
Right now the crew (well…one member because it generates clicks…) is in the news and it’s an opportunity for the FAA to look good to the public for doing something. So yeah, I think there will be a knee-jerk reaction that doesn’t meaningfully improve safety and does nothing to prevent a recurrence.
 
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