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Podcast: Flight Safety Detectives
Episode: Two Crashes Show Importance of Preflight Inspections
Description: Episode 90
Don’t let an inadequate preflight inspection come back to haunt you. Simple issues can lead to serious accidents for general aviation pilots. Greg Feith, John Goglia and Jason Lukasik look at two accidents to show how preflight inspections can avoid crashes, injury and death.
A Piper Seneca crash was attributed to missing cotter pins on the landing gear. Photos shows even more visual evidence of maintenance issues that could have been caught before the plane took off.
A Cessna 172 accident appears to be the result of the fuel selector handle being re...