OPINION: Only luck saved lives in Durango’s unqualified disaster

On an August day in the Alps last year, a teenage enthusiast on a pleasure flight aboard a single-engined Piper was offered the opportunity to take the controls, even though he had no experience and the pilot had no instructor qualification. The heavily-laden aircraft laboured to climb in the warm air, negotiating a course through […]
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