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AIN Blog: Test Pilots Push the Envelope So the Rest of Us Don’t Have To

As a general rule, AIN does not discuss aircraft accidents with reporters from the general media for the simple reason that we can’t really add much

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

April 8, 2011

As a general rule, AIN does not discuss aircraft accidents with reporters from the general media for the simple reason that we can’t really add much more than background information to what the NTSB and FAA report. We have also found, as have many others, that speculation about the cause of any accident, as is often reported in the general media, is usually pointless and often harmful.

So when JoAnn Merrigan, a reporter for Savannah, Ga., television station WSAV, called AIN on Monday, April 4, to talk about the Gulfstream G650 fatal accident that had occurred during a test flight in Roswell, N.M. on Saturday, April 2, I picked up the call with reluctance. Merrigan was polite and apologetic. She said she had previously done stories on Gulfstream, which is based in Savannah, that she understood about aircraft accident investigations and that she was interested in talking about the company itself, and not specifically about the accident. I agreed to talk with her.

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