Word: piloting
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...investigation into the crash of the small airplane owned by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle is just beginning, but already aviation experts and pilots are quietly speculating that it may be yet another case of "too much plane." Much like the crash that claimed the life of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and a friend in 1999, there are signs that this may be a case of a relatively inexperienced pilot who ran into trouble in a high-performance plane that he had not yet mastered fully...
...indicated that the plane issued a distress call, in a late-night press conference Deborah Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board did not report such a call. Hersman said the NTSB was just beginning its investigation, including looking at the aircraft, the engine and the actions of the pilot...
...unclear who was actually flying the airplane, and who was monitoring air traffic control, though the NTSB's Hersman said Lidle had gotten his license on Feb. 9, 2006. It is standard practice in an airplane emergency for one pilot to focus on keeping the plane stable and aloft while the other pilot handles the radio and troubleshoots the emergency...
...There is an aviation saying that "pilots always want to learn more about flying - but not too much in one day." That speaks to the inherent danger in being a new pilot: flying is a highly complex endeavor, and the more a pilot flies the better prepared he is when something unexpected pops up. But Lidle was a "low-time" pilot with only 95 hours of solo flying under his belt...