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Originally Posted by RyanShort1
It won't be the FAA. More likely insurance.
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Indeed. I know that, at least privately, NTSB air safety investigators have expressed concerns over the people flying the warbirds. Not that that was an issue here, mind you; the probable cause will take months to determine, and it may never be determined with certainty.
But a concern among air safety investigators is that while these warbirds may be old (and generally well-maintained) they are still high-performance aircraft designed to be flown by guys with the reflexes of a 20-year-old.
Granted, the people flying these aircraft are experienced and dedicated high-time aviators. They aren’t flying the aircraft in combat. But many of the planes are less forgiving of error and/or inattention than other aircraft.
Again, I want to stress these comments are general in nature and not meant to ascribe any blame or causation in this particular event. Aviation crashes are the end result of a chain of events, and we don’t know what all the links were in this collision’s chain.