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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the fatal crash of a single-engine plane carrying three people, including a Long Island man headed to Boston for cancer treatment. The flight was arranged by nonprofit Angel Flight, which gives free flights to people needing medical care; pilot Joseph Baker and Riverhead resident Robert and Donna Gregory were killed. It does not appear a distress call was made before the BeechcraftG35 Bonanza plane crashed in Easton, MA supermarket parking lot on Tuesday. The Gregorys' family are preparing to meet with counselors on how to tell their four-year-old twins their parents have died.
NTSB Investigates Plane Crash Carrying L.I. Couple
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ALL Beechcraft Bonanza V-Tails should be ordered by the FAA to be refitted with a conventional straight tail. End of Story.
The V-Tail was a novel approach and a marketing concept evolving somwtime after WWII- it has ALWAYS been controversial after many inflight structural deformation and failures... and deaths.
This recent 'accident'- is just another one of these predictable 'incidents'... any pilot who climbs into one of these V35's is just rolling the dice on a successful, safe flight- even in a V-Tail that has been structurally beefed-up.
The V-35 is simply a flawed and failed design concept that has been proven to kill people... sooner or later!
Yes, the V-tail did have a history for awhile before a mod was certified. But even than most issues related were due to the pilots over stressing the tail. However, in this case I think we will soon see that the "tail" had nothing to do with this tragedy. In fact look at some of the pictures of the crash....tail is intact. Listening to the ATC tapes gives more than a few clues that clearly the pilot was struggling with basic airmanship and unfortunately another "pilot error" may just be the cause of this one. But of course only the NTSB can determine that.
Prayers to those involved.