Clear, cloudless day, no wind at all to speak of, visability unlimited. TV news says one of the single engine planes had an instructor and a student. One of them survived, but not clear at this time if it was the student or the instructor that survived. The other single engine aircraft, a man and wife were both killed. TV footage of the wreckage makes it a miricle that anyone could have survived. Both planes totally mangled, and difficult to even tell what type they were.
That's the type of aviation incident/accident that scares me the most.
In this age of cheap laptop computers and 400.00 radar detectors (not to mention autonomous airplanes), you'd think they could come up with T.C.A.S. for general aviation and small aircraft 135 operators, that was reasonably priced.
There are two reasons that you don't see many GA advances that are "reasonably priced".
1) Certification process costs.
2) Liability costs.
Thank you, sue-happy culture. As some get rich, others hit the lawsuit lottery, and others die. Personal responsibility has gone out of style in our "victim" culture.
600 bucks for TCAS . Advertised in most GA pro pilot magazine. Last one or two AOPA had an article/comparison on these. No experience with it so don't know how well they work.
The link below, from the Minneapolis Sunday paper, details some information to this crash. The lone survivor is a 23 year old man who was taking his third flying lesson. His instructor, who died, was a 30 old female with about 1000 hours. http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4058542.html
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