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Just heard on Finebaum show that Bo Rein the LSU coach in 1980 was the last coach to pass while still coach. Bo was on a recruiting trip when his plane crashed after reaching heights the plane was not built for.
Rein was also a pilot if I recall and was on a recruiting trip. His plane flew too high, don't recall if it was mechanical or pilot error, and he passed out, the plane flew blind then crashed.
There was an incident, don't recall the year, maybe 1960s, when 2 or 3 TN asst coaches car was hit by a train and the coaches killed. Think one was Johnny Major's brother.
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IIRC, pressurization failed & the aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. USAF F-15s were sent to investigate & last saw it headed into the water.
After a quick read up on the crash…he diverted due to a storm and kept climbing and atc lost radar contact. The military intercepted him w Jets but couldn’t see anyone in the cockpit so they followed him until he ran out of fuel and crashed out to sea.
Since he was diverting bc the storm he may have thought he could climb out of it and get above the cloud layer and then the cabin losing pressure at altitudes it wasn’t built for could have caused him to pass out.
It’s also very easy to get ‘vertigo’/ spatial disorientation when flying in ifr/imc conditions (instrument only flying) like it would be in a storm. You essentially lose your ability to feel up from down and right from left when looking out the window. You could feel upright but be in a 90 degree bank. If you don’t strictly focus on your instruments and trust them even though you feel lopsided you’ll fly it into the ground (or up) thinking youre straight and level. We say to think it’s the instruments that are malfunctioning and not you. That’s why having a second pilot is essential even in partial IMC one pilot may be looking out and the other is on the instruments the entire time as a cross check and to call it out the first time if they suspect spatial-d and take controls if the pilot on controls doesn’t correct and maintain correction. Once they are off controls they just monitor instruments until their brain and body re-cage
Could have been either…high likelihood pilot error was the initial cause to get to that altitude to start with.
Spatial-D and a massive over correction when they popped out of the clouds due to a a pilot that wasn’t Instrument current was likely what caused the Kobe accident too reading the data.
The same happened to golfer Payne Stewart. A leak in the cabin pressure caused everyone to pass out and the plane kept on flying on automatic pilot until it ran out of gas and crashed. Oxygen deprivation sneaks up on you and you pass out before you know what is happening.
Having extensive training in hypoxia, i came away with two main thoughts:
(1) it can be insidious and you’re in trouble before you realize it, then screwed — i’ve seen more than a few times someone having to intervene on another’s behalf; ie place the O2 mask on the struggling..
(2) If you’re lucky you see someone else in distress before you, so that corrective measures can be taken…
I have a friend who was an Air Force navigator. They put him and his buddies in a tank and slowly lowered the oxygen pressure to demonstrate the effects of hypoxia. He said he thought he was acting normally until they showed them the recording.
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