Maybe they just need to ground everything that doesn’t conform to current certification standards.
LOL, I have a distant family relation to someone who flew 46s for Jack and John Coghill, and then Roger and Albert Brooks.
I thought so... But they've had a few accident's with the c-46 and thought that would be a poor choice to prove the point.
I think it would have been an excellent example, given the last two Everts C46 accidents I'm aware of where that ancient aircraft held up well. I believe any newer aircraft may not have fared as well after seeing the photos.
I think shoulder harness is on the 10 or more side of the 135 regs.
CTL actually does a pretty good job with those planes. They have a dodgy past and the 4 crashes you listed actually came after they started cleaning up their act. They deveolped TKS A/I for those planes which improved their utility. They don't carry any heavy loads so the plane shoudl have made it around the block and landed. Ground track looks like intercept to final was on the steep side.
15-20 years ago, I knew 2 pilots that flew for them at different times. From what I remember CTL was one of the better small freight operators. Besides the TKS I was told the 500's also had Garmin 396's with XM weather but did not have autopilots.
I am sure I added a few of those hours to the sleds.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is flying ~65 yr old Russian AN-12's across the US totally free of pesky FAA regulations.
I wouldn't say they are one of the better operators but they are not the worst. If you got to fly a plane with no autopilot that's one of the best to do it in.
