Three pilots in recent cases were all high-time pilots, and they all died in accidents. The circumstances and contributing factors of the cases differed, but the issue common to all was that each pilot’s high experience was not enough to forestall the accident.
A medevac Beech King Air 200, registration N547LM, attempted to take off with a tailwind that exceeded what the pilot expected, and it wound up in the frigid waters of Unalaska Bay.
