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pilot, who owned the charter company, had
the additional concern of needing to prove
its reliability to its most important customer.
And it provokes more thought when the
errors that led to the accident were subtle.
The pilot whose Cherokee Six broke up in
flight (airsafetyinstitute.org/timelapse)
over central Texas was on an IFR flight plan
and keeping an eye on NEXRAD radar, but
apparently wasn't aware of the lag times built
into a system that assembles its images from
multiple scans, then uploads them to satellite
for broadcast to subscribers.
Full-length case studies can have tremendous
impact (no pun intended), but can also take
a lot of time both to prepare and to present.
Sometimes a better alternative is to use a series
of thumbnails-quick descriptions of a series
of similar accidents in terms that highlight their
common thread. For example, in the space of
just over three years, fatal departure stalls in

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David Jack Kenny is manager of aviation
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Even if the name's a slight exaggeration, there's
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Thumbnails are more forgiving, but selecting good case-study subjects requires careful review of the candidate narratives. Like
obscenity, you'll know it when you see it.

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