Jack Roush Crashes Plane in WI

[Excaliber]

It is difficult to believe (impossible frankly) Roush would not have familiarized himself with the landing protocol for such a heavily attended event. Especially in view of his history of air craft business ventures.

This assumption, is based on the premise that he MUST not have known because he did not follow procedure by doing a "go round". It ignores the possibilities that a go round, early or late, could NOT have been done as easily as has been suggested. There seems to be an issue of endangering himself or other air craft if a go round was attemped. This does not suggest he was unfamiliar with the procedure, but was unable to follow it. Because he got "behind"? Speculation at best, but if so, it warrants further speculation about WHY/HOW he got behind? That could have started with the "obvious" confusion in the control tower when THEY "got behind".

[Silverback51]

To my knowledge none of us were in the plane, or in the tower. We can argue until the cows come home, and it doesn't mean squat.

In about a year we will have access to the NTSB report. At that time we will know what really happened.

[TXBLU]

$10 says Mr. Roush was at fault here, and that the controller(s) also failed to recognize a problem with the pilot (Mr. Roush) understanding what was expected with his required specific approach rpocedures, possibly from a lack of experience operating that aircraft type in those conditions. Jack got behind the aircraft, overshot the turn to final, and failed to recover. This is merely specultion on my part, and in no way is meant to denigrate anyone's opinion or experience with aviation accidents, or to be inflamatory in any way.

I do think that a more rational analysis, and more respectful conversaition, would go a long way towards our collective understanding of what happened, and how that might have occured. Keeping an open mind about what we know, and don't know, would go a long way toward keeping this from spiraling down into a war of words and opinion based on speculation. I appreciate and encourage anyone with an opinion, based on aviation experience or not, to share that opinion with the rest of us.

This is interesting: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/GenPDF.asp?id=CEN10FA443&rpt=p

Eric