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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did people read the NYT article yesterday?  I understand there were many things that went wrong that night, including understaffing in the tower, but why the hell was a pilot with inferior flying skills in the area that night?  I was struck by the description of her lack of talent as a pilot.  I’m sorry if that is hurtful to her family.[/quote]

Can someone paste the relevant part, or post a link to the article?[/quote]

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/us/politics/dc-plane-helicopter-crash.html[/url]

[b]....That same week, Mr. Eaves, assigned to give her the annual flight exam, told his girlfriend that he feared Captain Lobach was unprepared for the flight, according to an N.T.S.B. interview document.[/b][/quote]
Completely unrelated to the point of this article but I noticed they reference his girlfriend...but his obituaries mentioned his widow and children. So, is this just an error and they interviewed his wife? Or like...what cause the alternative is [b]this is how his wife finds out he had an affair.[/b][/quote]

Really, man/woman? This is what you are wondering ?[/quote]
Yes, that is my only concern in all of this. (I'll note that was sarcasm for you.)

I immediately said "Completely not the point of this article," implying I understand the point of the article. I am simply confused how this man's gf was interviewed by NTSB when he was married. Did the NTSB identify her as his gf incorrectly? I would hope that they are being very detail oriented in the investigation, so that wouldn't be great.[/quote]

Are you suggesting that the report is a fabrication?[/quote]
This is clearly going over your head, so let me be very, very explicit for you: 
K
Misidentifying someone as a "girlfriend" when they were a wife is a mistake that may not seem like much, but to me, it indicates that the NTSB is not paying much attention to details. They interviewed this woman themselves, according to the report, so it's not like they're relying on information from a third party who got it wrong. It is concerning that in the investigation of a passenger jet crash they would get something so blatantly wrong. [/quote]

Lesson: don't trust the current ntsb they are overlooking details. What if he was in process of a divorce and had a girlfriend?[/quote]

OP has convinced me. We will never know the real story with this NTSB investigating.[/quote]
I am not saying there's a grand conspiracy or that the report was "fabricated" as someone suggested. I am simply saying that they are clearly not paying a ton of attention to the small details, which is not great. [/quote]

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