A Skilled Pilot, a Routine Approach, an Unexpected Catastrophe
The sun had just set on a cold January day in 2016, when a Cirrus SR22T made its approach to Greene County Regional Airport near Dayton.
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The sun had just set on a cold January day in 2016, when a Cirrus SR22T made its approach to Greene County Regional Airport near Dayton.
A pilot and controller express uncertainty during an abnormal landing gear situation that turns into a fire—and an emergency.
Following the loss of a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, Lockheed needed “to build the impossible—and do it fast.” Called the SR-71—SR for Strategic Reconnaissance—it first flew on December 22, 1964.
The most likely, but unstated, reason for the decline in faith in see-and-avoid is the new availability of electronic systems for presenting traffic information in the cockpit.
When the NTSB finds undetermined reasons for an accident, it clearly leaves a lot of questions for pilots to ponder in its wake.