Fonte: flightglobal.com ..... "Untrained youngster given control before fatal PA-28 crash" .....Swiss investigators have concluded that pilot of a Piper PA-28 handed control to a 14-year old enthusiast during a pleasure flight before the aircraft fatally crashed in the Alps near the Italian border.
Four occupants had been on board the PA-28, which had been conducting a flight from Samedan airport, as part of a week-long summer aviation youth camp run by Aero-Club of Switzerland.
Some 200 young people attended the event and three, all teenagers, had accompanied the PA-28 pilot on the 4 August 2017 flight.
While the trip through the mountainous area was intended as a flying experience, Swiss investigation authority SUST found that, during such flights, the passenger in the right-hand front seat would often be offered the chance to “feel” the aircraft, or even take control.
SUST points out (*) that this practice occurred despite the supervising pilot’s not having instructor qualifications.
(*) ..... https://www.sust.admin.ch/inhalte/AV-be ... 2339_f.pdf .....
Una cronaca d'epoca ..... https://www.lacote.ch/articles/suisse/g ... ina-691602 .....
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