Seriously, taking selfies while buzzing?

FormerHangie said:
https://news.yahoo.com/video/investigators-selfies-played-role-deadly-031036709-cbs.html

It's hard to believe anyone could be that reckless.
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Isn't this really old news? The PC report was release in February. The NTSB was speculating since apparently there were no selfies from the accident flight, but rather from the previous flight.

"The National Transportation Safety Board said a GoPro video camera was found near the plane's wreckage in Watkins, about 25 miles east of Denver. Recordings on the device showed several flights where the pilot and his passengers were taking "self-photographs" with their cellphones.

In one recording [i.e., in a single recording], the pilot was captured using the flash at night to take selfies during the plane's intitial climb and flight, the NTSB said. The deadly flight itself was not captured on the GoPro.

"Post-accident examination of the airplane did not reveal any pre-impact anomalies that would have precluded normal operation," the NTSB said in their report, released Friday. "Based on the wreckage distribution, which was consistent with a high-speed impact, and the degraded visual reference conditions, it is likely that the pilot experienced spatial disorientation and lost control of the airplane."

"It is likely that cell phone use during the accident flight distracted the pilot and contributed to the development of spatial disorientation and subsequent loss of control," the report says."

Personally I think it's rank speculation and other than one example of cell phone use on a prior flight, there was no evidence whatsoever to suggest that cell phone use was a factor in the accident flight. The NTSB did not recover any "selfies" from the cell phones in the accident flight.
 
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Oh yes, this has been discussed at length in many threads when this accident occurred.
And the recent increase of speculation in NTSB's reports was discussed as well, though not at length, given the disturbing change.
 
The Russian government just issued a warning to prevent people form taking hazardous selfless. They've lost hundreds. Isn't confined to us pilots.
 
Yeah, but there was no smoking gun or semi solid proof that a selfie had jack to do with that crash, or any crash.

Much ado about nothing.
 
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