Reply #62: It's tempting to think it was intentional [View All]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

because I think the BFEE is incredibly evil and wouldn't be above doing something like that, but I think it really was an accident. I'm a pilot and a flight instructor with an academic background in flight safety, and based on what I know there is nothing at all suspicious about the NTSB's findings. Both pilots were not as proficient as they should have been, and they allowed the airplane to get too slow while they were looking for the runway in marginal weather on a nonprecision approach. 80 knots is way too slow for a King Air; they evident;y got distracted and stalled the damn thing at an altitude that made a stall recovery impossible. It was a sad, stupid accident of the sort that happens too often in general aviation operations, though not in the more tightly regulated major airlines. If the BFEE wanted to murder Wellstone they could have done it in a way that would have been less likely to give rise to conspiracy theories. But to "cause" that airplane to crash mysteriously only a week before the election was just too obvious. Occam's Razor applies here: the simplest cause is the most likely to be true.