Wednesday, June 13, 2007

NTSB report is flawed

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I can't defend my son, Quin Stone, in this limited space without sounding like sour grapes. Too bad. There are about 20 people in a helitack team, not four. "The" is a significant word. There isn't a single person on the team, including the four mentioned in the Express article last week, or the Forest Service investigator that solicited the remarks, that believe that paragraph should have been placed in a supposedly evidence-based NTSB report, or believe that Quin was "sleigh" riding to provoke the accident.

I had several unsolicited comments from team members that Quin was the best pilot they had ever had. Verdict by innuendo and insinuation made the report a work of fiction but served the purpose of the NTSB well. Fact: With all the team's safety checks, Quin never had a negative comment about his flying. Quin had too much pride in his flying and concern for safety as well as concern for those he served and teamed with, to live with or die with, that insinuation.

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