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There is no peace for the loved ones of Jessica Dubroff. The death of the seven-year-old pilot, who had been attempting to become the youngest person ever to fly cross-country, tore at the nation's heartstrings after her Cessna went down shortly after take-off during an icy rainstorm near Cheyenne, Wyoming, last April. Perhaps inevitably, Jessica's survivors are heading to court: her stepmother, Melinda Dubroff, is suing Jessica's natural mother, Lisa Blair Hathaway, over the life-insurance benefits of Jessica's father, who also died in the crash. Hathaway, for her part, has filed...
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Jessica Dubroff's wings may have been frosted with ice, and she had no joy of flight on her last ride. She took off in a cold rain and died when her single-engine Cessna 177B nose-dived onto the black tar of a suburban roadway. But her senseless death last week could also be attributed to a modern kind of hubris. For Jessica was urged on by overzealous parents, by a media drawn to a natural human-interest story and by a willfully blind Federal Aviation Administration, which permitted a 4-ft. 2-in., 55-lb. seven-year...
...sluggish, shaky takeoff. The four-seat Cessna seemed to shudder from the moment it lifted off Runway 30, and investigators have suggested it was too heavy for the conditions at that altitude. Everyone on board must have instantly realized something was wrong. Jessica's plane was equipped with dual controls, so that Reid could immediately take over in an emergency, and presumably he did--his arms were fractured more severely than hers, suggesting he had his hands on the yoke. In such a situation, an experienced pilot might have landed the plane on the golf course...
There was, so to speak, the proximate cause: the fatal stupidity of allowing an overweight four-seater Cessna to take off, in thin mountain air, into the violence of an early spring thunderstorm. But if it had been three adults who died as a result of that decision, the crash would have merited 10 seconds on the local news in Denver...