OH NO! The AME’s in Oklahoma City and the lawyers in D.C, will read this and be “on” it pronto. What we need is a mandatory retirement age for recreational pilots … why don’t we just make it a nice round 30. Between aging aircraft and aging pilots … we have a major problem on our hands. Airplanes are falling out of the sky faster than we can build more.
And just how did investigators determine that there wasn’t anything wrong with the airplane or its pressurization system from an airplane destroyed totally upon impact? Just from the sounds of things – to ME – I’d say this is a Payne Stewart moment. “Likely,” the pilot shoulda donned his O2 mask and asked for a descent.