Re: Helicopters collide in fatal chase for live news

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:35:19 GMT, cg <cgrams007@{removethis}yahoo.com>
wrote:

As it turned out, the pilots were not able to avoid a mid-air
collision.

I'm not sure I would phrase it like this. I would say the pilots did
not avoid a midair. Clearly, they were able to avoid the collision,
but they did not do so.

I understand the need for multi-tasking while piloting any aircraft
but the number of tasks needing management while following a police
chase seems a bit too much.

Then the PIC needs to drop out of the chase if she deems the safety of
flight to be compromised. Continuing flight in dangerous conditions
is purely the responsibility of the PIC, since, as you point out,
people on the ground are endangered when big pieces of metal fall out
of the sky.
--
regards, Fred

"[... E]veryone feels misquoted because people say 20 or 30 sentences for
every one sentence that a journalist prints. It's always in the context
of the journalist's story, not the speaker's story."

Penelope Trunk
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