NTSB faults pilots, FAA in 2007 charter plane crash

[DieselDragRacer]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-14-crash-2007-michigan_N.htm

 

[ksu_aviator]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-14-crash-2007-michigan_N.htm

This article goes into a little more detail:

http://propilotnews.com/2009/10/ntsb-says-2007-citation-crash-into-lake.html

 

[ksu_aviator]

My first thought is, if the autopilot is the problem and you are going to crash because of the autopilot, why not just push the little red button on the inside half of the control column? Just a thought. Don't know that they didn't do that.

 

[jonjuan]

I'm wondering why they were doing 250.