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Death of former Obama official on private jet not due to turbulence, NTSB says

The death of a former Obama official on a private jet earlier this month could not have been due to turbulence caused by the weather, the National Transportation Safety Board announced.

55-year-old Dana Hyde was returning home by plane after visiting school with her son and husband. She was killed in an event that was initially attributed to volatility while they were traveling on a Bombardier BD-100-1A10( Challenger 300 ) aircraft. However, the NTSB’s initial report disregarded that risk. According to the report, the pressure that killed her was five times greater than gravity. Therefore, a string of obvious captain mistakes and technical issues are being held responsible for the incident. The four other passengers on the sheet were uninjured, and neither was the aircraft.

FILE- On August 5, 2014, at the US Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Dana Hyde takes part in the filing meeting for the Ghana Compact. Investigators reported on Friday, March 24, 2023, that Hyde, a business airplane passenger, was fatally injured when the plane fiercely bucked up and down in the beginning of March after the pilots turned off the stabilizer system. ( AP Photo / J ). Submit, Scott Applewhite

TURBULENCE ON A Personal PLANE LEADS TO THE DEATH OF THE Standard WHITE HOUSE OF OBAMA.

When the aircraft now took off after an unsuccessful launch, the pilots were inundated with alerts. The pilots went down a schedule and turned off the device used to regulate the aircraft. When no one had their fingers on the adjustments, that turned off the driver.

The report stated that” the airplane abruptly pitched up as soon as the switch position was moved.” According to” The Pilot-in-Commander ,” his right hand was manning the right side of the flight controls while his left was on the controls. He quickly regained management of the aircraft with both hands in what he estimated to be a matter of seconds after the plane’s to began to fluctuate up and down. The stabilizer trim switch was to be moved back to the primary position during the oscillations, as instructed by the PIC and the( second-in-command ), which the SIC did.

The helicopter fiercely shook up and down in the few hours that the aircraft lost control of it.

” The airplane quickly accelerated to a vertical acceleration of + 3.8g ] 3.8x the force of gravity and pitched up to about 11 °.” The aircraft then started to accelerate vertically in a negative direction, reaching – 2.3g. A horizontal acceleration of + 4.2g was observed as the aircraft pitched up once more to about 20 degrees. The report went on to say that after the stall protection stick pusher was activated during this pitch-up, vertical acceleration decreased to about + 2.2g.

” Four Gs.” Your body weight is four years that. According to Jeff Guzzetti, a previous emergency analyst with the Federal Aviation Administration and the NTSB, items that once weighed 100 pounds were immediately weighing 400 pounds and moving upward or downward. ” For an aeroplane to have, that is a significant amount of G force.”

The planes were informed that there was a medical emergency among the customers shortly after regaining management. The many captain was informed that they needed to get after attempting to provide first aid. Paramedics greeted the sheet, and Hyde was taken right away to the hospital. She passed away from her wounds the same day.

Whether Hyde or the other travellers were wearing seat belts at the time of the affair was not specified.

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Both pilots had prior experience, with the SIC recording 8, 025 whole aircraft hours, including 78 years in the accident-make-and-model aircraft, and the PIC recording 5, 061 complete flying hours.

Hyde was a member of both the Clinton and Obama administrations, and according to her Columbia World Projects biography, she served as counsel to the 9 / 11 Commission, which looked into how well-prepared the United States was for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.



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