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Monday, May 18, 2009

NTSB on 2007 Kemper Midair

A student pilot who collided with a veteran Piper PA-30 pilot over the Everglades in December 2007, killing both, was operating a Kemper Aviation Cessna 152 that misreported its altitude to air traffic controllers, according to federal investigators.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ruled that the light planes collided because the pilots failed to see each other, but cited erroneous readouts from the Cessna's altitude encoder as a contributing factor. The student pilot was enrolled at Kemper Aviation, a now defunct flight school that was under the gun for alleged air safety issues.
Kemper Aviation closed in late March 2008 after another fatal crash, on March 13, killed the school's 36-year-old co-owner, and three university researchers.

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