Richard de Crespigny
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Experienced pilots can navigate weather, know when either not to fly or to avoid the weather or to turn back.
It comes down to experience and personality.
And I think, it's very sad to say, I think a lot of injuries occur when people fly into thunderstorms for many reasons.
Maybe they're not looking at the radar.
Maybe they haven't interpreted properly.
Maybe the radar's failed.
It doesn't happen often.
It's very rare.
But with 40 million flights a year, some have been flown into thunderstorms and people have been hurt.
In America, they're overcrowded.
Washington, there was a crash between a Delta aircraft and a… Helicopter.
I think it was Delta.
I'd say…
No, let me start this again.
In America, aviation is overcrowded.
In Washington, there was a collision between a commercial aircraft and a helicopter.
People are blaming the helicopter pilot for that error.
He was 100 feet too high.
No, you should never, ever have a single point of failure.
Those two aircraft should not have been in the same airspace.