"This was an egregious and preventable accident that raises many
safety issues that need to be addressed. It also was a clearly
survivable accident -- as are most commercial air carrier
accidents, and points up the necessity of strictly following
time-tested procedures to maximize passenger safety in emergency
situations."
Source: NTSB Chairman Ellen Engleman Conners,
referring to the ditching of an Air Sunshine flight in July, 2003.
In an uncharacteristically harsh appraisal of the accident, board
members criticized the company, the pilot and what it said was
poor, undocumented maintenance, all of which the NTSB listed as
contributors to the accident. A woman and a four-year old child
died after the aircraft ditched in the Atlantic while on a flight
from Fort Lau
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