Saturday, February 4, 2012
Micron Full NTSB Probe Into Appleton Crash Could Take Six to 12 Months
Posted by George Prentice on Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:26 AM
A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board into Friday's plane crash that killed Micron CEO Steve Appleton is expected in five days. A final NTSB investigation into the crash at Boise Airport may take anywhere from six to 12 months. But the Federal Aviation Administration issued a safety warning two years ago on the experimental high performance plane, which crashed at the Boise Airport killing Appleton.
Witnesses told officials Friday that they saw Appleton's aircraft "make a steep bank, stall and roll into the ground." According to the eyewitnesses the plane crash-landed upside down between two airport runways at aproximately 9 a.m. on Friday.
The Lanceair 4 experimental aircraft was the subject of a March 2010 FAA safety advisory, which said the plane could "expose pilots to additional risk during slow-speed operations while close to the ground and with little time to recover from an unintentional stall."
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Visiting with a group this morning, the Steve Appleton tragedy came up as a topic. One member of the group said a few will mourn but more than 10,000 won't care.
-Asked, wow, why is that?
-Person replied Micron layoffs. He let people go from their job.
-Asked, did he just not like the +10,000 employees, or maybe it was driven by competitive forces?
-Person said I don't know, but it was wrong.
-Asked, did you work for Micron?
-Person replied, no, I work for the post office.
Dependency makes people think and say things that are worse than who they really are... at least I hope that is true.
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