Selfie Causes Plane Crash

The NTSB is saying that a recent airplane crash was caused by an idiot who loved to take selfies of himself while flying. And this is how society weeds out the stupid.

From WTOP here:

Selfies were a likely factor in a small plane crash near Denver last year that killed the pilot and his only passenger, according to a new National Transportation Safety Board report.

The report, released last week, said recordings from a GoPro camera that escaped damage and had been mounted on the Cessna 150K’s instrument panel show the pilot and other passengers repeatedly taking photographs of themselves with their cellphones, even using the flash, during several previous short flights in the hours leading up to the May 31 crash.

Although there was no video of the deadly flight, evidence of the pilot’s previous cellphone use that day makes it likely that cellphone use contributed to his disorientation and loss of control, investigators concluded.

The May crash killed pilot Amritpal Singh, 29, of Aurora and his passenger shortly after they took off from Front Range Airport in Adams County on a night flight. The wreckage was found in a wheat field about a mile west of the airport.

Hard to see where to land at night when you use a flash to take selfies I suppose. Or he was just a crappy pilot.