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From: dgb@mgwess.UUCP (Donald Beahm)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Crash/accident talk
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Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 16:06:03 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  7 16:06:03 1985
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	I agree that we can learn a great deal from the
misfortunes of others in aviation.  Having gone along on a crash
investigation, I learned a great deal about how that particular
aircraft ended up in the cornfield the way it did.  I also was a
witness too and videotaped another fatal crash and even though it
was very upsetting at the time I learned from it.  That crash was
at a public airshow which some people attend to see others hurt
and others of us aviation ethusiasts attend for the people and
aircraft involved.  

	I always am amazed at the media recounts of aviation
accidents and how butchered up the story can become i.e. gasoline
in a turbine aircraft etc.  The only articles I take with some
degree of accuracy are those in 'FLYING' magazine or in AOPA
'PILOT' magazine.  They are usually written by aviation writers
who know where of they write.  I for one always read these
accounts each month and file them away against the time I may fly
against a smilar situation.

					Don Beahm AOPA 625889
					AT&T-IS
					Montgomery Works