Unicom
August 2001 Issue
A Hero to Whom?
Accident pilot passed up many chances to save himself
As the Airport Director of the DeKalb Peachtree Airport, I must take great umbrage with “The Clock Runs Out” [Accident Probe, June]. It is apparent and unfortunate that Mr. Ibold either did not read the final NTSB report, or, at the very least, took great literary license in his interpretation of the report.
To intimate the fire response crew did anything wrong is totally without merit.
Because PDK is the second-busiest airport in Georgia, our ARFF crew gets to “practice” responding to many alerts throughout the year in all types of weather conditions. Responding to this specific alert was almost second nature to them in communicating with the tower and in responding to a staging locat...
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