10 Skydivers Killed By EVERYONE’S Reckless Mistakes!

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2. Hoover, you're Air Force, so you will know exactly what I'm talking about. I drive I-90 between Washington and Montana, and every time I pass Spokane, and Fairchild AFB, I get angry all over again about one name. Bud Holland. He's the reason I hope there is a conscius aferlife, because I want him to spend eternity having to know what a screaming jackass he was. If you haven't done a bit on that, I wish you would.

3. Why does the FAA and NTSB seem so weak and powerless in these investigations? I’m sure many feel the lies and failures deserve punishment in many of these cases. Bobby should have his life revoked, never mind certificates.

4. As a young surfer it was amazing for me to meet laird hamilton on my birthday while boarding a prop small commercial plane in hawaii. I noticed first his wife Gabby getting off the flight and I almost thought it was her as I told my dad that I think that is gabby reece getting off the flight. I only knew what she looked like because Laird was one of my favorite big wave surfers and she was pretty tall. Then when I saw him I was pretty surprised they were flying the same smaller private planes I was using. He was really cool to me, she was a total snob. He told me "there are old pilots and bold pilots but no old bold pilots, you will be safe this pilot is old". We had a fun talk about surfing and as my flight was taking off he was waving and screaming Happy BD so loud I could hear it over the very loud double props. It was pretty funny and pretty cool! But I learned a lot about old and bold pilots that day.

5. Wow.. This is the most cluster f mess of incompetence and malicious indifference I've ever seen in the aviation industry

6. In most jurisdictions, a person must have five years of successful schooling plus perform TEN THOUSAND hours of work under the direct supervision a licensed professional electrician before he is permitted to interview to be allowed to take the test to see if he is qualified to obtain a journeyman license, and it takes more schooling and time in the trade to test for a master's license. Oh, and plumbers have time and training requirements that almost exactly the same as electricians. 5 years and 10,000 hours isn't universal, with some jurisdictions requiring more. The requirements to be even a commercial pilot seem like a joke.

7. Recently there was a crash on Catalina Island, CA where all 5 occupants were pilots and I'm wondering if this is on your radar. I understand it's probably too soon for the report to be out, but my friend's brother was one of the occupants so I'm interested in the opinion of another pilot. From what I heard, the original plane they used had trouble so another plane from the same company was brought out and apparently it also had trouble. They also took off at night which you aren't supposed to do from that airport(airstrip?). It seems like there were a lot of holes in the swiss cheese.

8. So sad. I'm sure there were passengers who saw those structural anomalies on the exterior of the aircraft and were uneasy. There were those who expressed being uneasy about the maneuvers. A good reminder to SPEAK UP where safety is concerned. That is NOT an admonishment. I've "gone along" myself several times in cars, and was seriously imperiled as a result. Although speaking up doesn't always stop reckless behavior. TWICE in my teens I loudly warned the driver of the vehicle I was in to slow down when a approaching turn too fast, and both times the driver ignored me and and the next thing you know the car was upside down. The second time it was a hill in the desert on a dirt road, and I said slow down because you don't know if there's a turn on the other side of that hill… "LIKE THAT!!!!" i shouted, bracing myself, as we came over the hill only to find… a 90 degree turn. Upside down again. Seatbelts saved my neck both times. SEATBELTS! Way too easy to die. I can't believe some of those passengers weren't wearing seatbelts.

9. Why is the drop zone at the end of the runway? Why have such a long runway but have to break to the left?

10. You shouldn't eat anything microwaved in plastic. No matter how busy life is, you should never compromise health to save time.

11. I'm a nervous flyer, but I would fly with Hoover at the controls any day. Either Hoover, or Peter from "Mentor Pilot" would put me at ease. That, and a few Xanax… 😉

12. I go to the beach just up the road from the airport, and there have been a handful of occasions where the jumpers miss the landing zone and end up landing on the beach. It's fun to watch them gather up the parachute and take the 1+ mile walk of shame.

13. Incompetence is in absolute abundance these days. People need to be made more aware on how to make sure someone is legitimate when doing things like this, so that people can protect themselves from egotistical wannabes like that pilot and the owner. Doesn’t want to take the time to gain experience and knowledge, just a fraud that wants to show off and make money as soon as possible, to the point where he literally purposely put passengers lives in danger for a “thrill ride”, what an absolute joke of a pilot, just wow. Only saw people as opportunities, not people. Way too many people out there like this these days. No one wants to work for anything, they just take the easy way out, and that cowardly attitude is okay when it doesn’t involve an industry where safety is of the upmost importance, and a pilots training and attitude is as well. The NTSB needs to seriously do better here.

14. The key phrase in this entire video is "normalization of deviance".

15. People put their life in the hands of strangers all the time (police, doctors, pilots, restaurant cooks, taxi drivers, etc) and yet we as humans take for granted that these "professionals" know what they are doing. Folly.

16. What were the winds and temperature?

17. I would love to know what the prices were being charged for these skydive flights.
    Im gonna guess it was dirt cheap.

18. Thanks for another informative debrief. I do have a comment regarding the people who are suing the parachute club operation.
    Ive signed that waiver and I have also made it clear to my family and friends that in the event of an accident I do not want anyone to sue on account of my death or serious injury.
    Yes I agree justice is desirable but should it be at the cost of the sport of skydiving in the US? If the people suing are successful in thwarting the waiver then I'm afraid that would be the end of skydiving. I am of course unhappy with the people who put lives in danger and put the sport in this precarious situation. This includes the jumpers who decided not to fasten their restraint during take off. We all know where the line is and we all know how even a small bump during take off can result in bodies sliding past that line if not restrained. Complacency is the most insidious danger in this activity and it should not be allowed to creep in.
    Thanks again for exposing these mistakes so that we can learn from them lest they be repeated.

19. Some people should definitely serve time for their culpability in this accident. If "Bobby" isn't already inside then the NTSB haven't been doing their jobs.
    I hope the lawsuit brings justice for the families of the innocent victims.

20. The FAA played a major role in this litany of failures… everything from pilot training and maintenance failures to multiple operational failures. I'm very surprised that they're not listed high up in the legal action.

21. Thanks for your work documenting events and the investigations. I think it is helpful for those involved in aviation. I like how you try to be respectful and honest at the same time. Keep up the good work!

22. WoW! Just…WoW!😮😱😥

23. Second chances work on tests, but not in real life.

24. I hate to say it but I saw saw many short cuts used in the skydiving world. There is not much of a profit margin in most cases. I was very fortunate during my jumping years though several fatalities occurred at "my dropzone." I walked away and I was lucky I did. The owners moved into agricultural flying until two of the jump pilots collided over the fuel truck killing both. On the aviation side, there are no short cuts to getting experience. RIP

25. Undoubtedly, this is a terrible tragedy, but it needs to be said that some of these general aviation pilots are just clowns. Hardly a week goes by when some light aircraft doesn’t fall out of the sky, putting the pilot, the passengers, and the people on the ground’s lives at risk. If the NTSB or FAA were as blasé with commercial aviation as they appear to be with general aviation, no one would fly anywhere. There’s a glaring double standard here and it’s killing people.

26. My dad used to fly in the Navy, and later had a Cesna 182. I flew a lot with him, but I didn't have the fly bug. My uncle went down in his Piper Cub, and was never found.
    I got into water sports instead. But the similarities of SCUBA which I do a lot of, and flying are many. It's always a number of mistakes which lead up to these tragic situations in SCUBA also. 
    This guy was pushing the limit to prove something.  
    Very sad.

27. Bro, it's red flag after red flag after red flag. It's literally signing to your death. I feel sorry for those sky divers, may they rest in peace.

28. I skydived and BASE jumped with Larry Lemaster a few times. He was a great guy. Blue Skies!

29. Makes me never want to go and jump out of a civilian airplane. What is with skydiving company pilots? A couple decades ago, a local and apparently well known and respected skydive school and business had a pilot who would "have some fun" by immediately diving the aircraft after last skydiver jumped out to try and beat the first diver to the ground. And, by 'to the ground' I mean landed and taxied back into school's hangar at the end of the strip. On one occasion he allegedly missed a free falling diver by less than 500 feet and one that had already deployed less than a few hundred. The orientation of the aircraft was almost straight down at the time. it was a race after all. Luckily, no one was ever injured and the pilot eventually had his license revoked by the FAA.

30. So sad Shoddy maintenance and a reckless pilot. Bad combination

31. I found this video when scrolling YouTube. I'm not a pilot, nor do I even want to fly. I watched your video with great interest because it was straight forward and quite interesting. Yes, I do believe that everyone involved with that situation should be held accountable in some form. They all had a part in the final failure of that aircraft that took ten lives!

32. One doesn't think there can be so many faults and people at fault in flying. Terrible situation…😢…. Are there no safeguards?,,,,

33. These a-holes will get immortalized in eFIRC accident chain failure examples for the next 20 years.

34. Wait – if the skydivers jumped out, then who were killed? I'm missing something here.

35. It is hard to believe that the worse criminal penalty they would get is getting your Certs pulled. They should get jail on top of any civil judgement. I also would never fly that plane a second time if I flew it the first time and it had that left trim issue. I once purchases a plane and later found out it had an undocumented prop strike. I sued everyone involved and never flew the plane again.

36. Pretty sad

37. what amazes me that there were no criminal charges flowing from any of this criminal negligence actions. The owner/maintenance and operator of the parachute school were all clearly criminally negligent.

38. The waving of your hands flying around on everything little thing you said was very annoying.

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