Her video's were difficult to watch ... and this report was difficult to examine. However, both are necessary to understand why and how these things happen, so as to identify problem points and take action to prevent a similar occurrence in the future. I agree with you that this ultimate result was preventable ... and should never have happened. Having investigated accidents and performed 'comparative accident analysis' for a state aviation department many years ago, it became clear that sometimes the causal factors are alarmingly numerous and should have been obvious enough for someone to intervene and break the chain. That definitely was the case here. Her issues seem to begin at the very basics of flying ... Newton's Third Law, for example. Very sad, considering as professionals, we are our 'brothers' keeper ... we can do better. Thoughts and Prayers to family and friends. ^v^

As a retired CFI that video of the young lady and her CFI 900 ft below a approach fix totally oblivious to it gave me cold chills. Good lord!

It seems to me that she was more interested in people being interested in her flying than she was interested in flying herself. Vanity and distraction. Deadly.

My hat is off to you for watching the TNflygirl videos. I saw part of one of them and that was all I could take.

The lesson I take from this is that she moved on to a more complex aircraft way too soon. She should have stayed in the plane that she used for certification while she cemented her piloting skills. The most confusing things to me are the obsession with the auto pilot and attention to the cameras. If you don’t know how to use the autopilot, you don't invite a non-pilot family member to help figure it out. Also cameras + phones + tablet = distractions that lead to these type of accidents. Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. Doesn’t say anything about selfies and TikTok videos. What I blame the instructors for is the lack of professionalism when ‘teaching’. My CFI constantly reminded me to watch my airspeed, altitude, and power setting by saying “we’re going to be on the news, or worse”.

The clip with the CFI made me sick. It appeared that NO-ONE in that cockpit knew what the hell was going on !!

I didn't see a pilot. I saw a narcissist which is very common on KZfaq.

I took a quick look at her videos prior to the accident. The infatuation with the auto-pilot was a head scratcher for me. Every video I watched was full of distractions. Video cameras, CFI that was an empty suit, hi perf. single that she was behind before she started the engine. When I learned of her accident it didn't surprise me. In the video example 900 ft low on an approach segment is on the CFI. I've been flying an M model Bonanza for 37 years, I didn't have an auto-pilot for the first 20. This young lady didn't have training on how to hand fly and trim the aircraft so she wouldn't be behind it and bad habits kept getting compounded. Unfortunately she and her father paid with their lives and she left behind plenty of video evidence as to why.

Did she fly to fly or fly to be a famous KZfaqr?

Someone with more money than skills is certainly nothing new in G/A. It's just that we have more people putting themselves on film these days, so we sadly get a first hand look at incompetence in action.

All I needed to see in order to be sure in my own mind of what led up to this, was that - on three different occasions - she was unaware of the need to add power to an aircraft that is being commanded to climb. I don't think it's correct to conclude that "she didn't know how to operate the autopilot". The issue is more fundamental and basic than that; she was not aware that when commanding a climb (in these three cases using the autopilot) that power would need to be added, to counteract the loss in airspeed. The fluctuations in altitude mentioned in the report are exactly what happened in all three of these videos; she tried to climb, airspeed dimishes, close to stall, so she descends (usually following an AP emegency disconnect). Then the spiral repeats. In two of these videos it is her (non-pilot) Father that is with her as she attempts these speed-diminshing climbs. On one, it was her CFI, who made no attempt to educate her on the need to add power while climbing. She was quite staggeringly incapable of operating an aircraft. The CFI in question must face at least partial responsibility for this accident. There is a clear line of causation.

I watched some of her videos. I got the impression she thought flying was no big deal. She thought it was easier and less involved than it is.

I only have about 30 hours of flight time as a student pilot. 7 of those hours were solo. They were all a few decades ago. I watched a couple of her videos, and what strikes me as radically different from my own experience is that my CFI almost never touched the controls or radio. Sure, on the first flight he handled the takeoff and landing, but he quickly let me do the work while he talked me through it. By the time of my first solo, I had many lessons where he had not touched a single control (though his hand may have been very close to the yoke at times), and not said a word on the radio. He was just watching everything and talking to me, making helpful critiques and suggestions. We learn by doing, not by having someone else do what needs to be done.

So it looks like we have very young CFI's who don't really know what they're doing just wanting a job to accumulate enough hours to go to an airline...and I think the young guy in the video (or one of her earlier CFI's) did indeed get an airline job...where hopefully he'll be trained. I think someone said that Jenny was talking about getting HER CFI so she could get more hours...so you have this descending spiral of knowledge where one poorly trained person 'trains' the next who is going to be even less proficient and soon you end up with little training actually happening. It's like the aircraft version of the children's game of 'telegraph' where you give a sentence to one child, who tells the next one and on down the line after many transmissions what comes out the other end on the last child is nothing like the original message. If this IS what's going on here....if the FAA had any sense they'd put a stop to it. But considering who 'leads' the FAA I don't think that's going to happen.

What this young lady needed was Someone to tell her “NO”. Honestly… Clearly she lacked the Understanding and Judgement to Realize how far beyond her Current Capabilities she had run. And now Her Story is over. Her Father, who was the final person that could have told her “NO!”, instead climbed into the aircraft with her Again, sealing both their fates. As Heartbreaking as this whole story is… at least they didn’t kill anyone else. From where I stand, I’m having trouble seeing how her Flight Instructors could believe that she had a handle on the Basic Skills she needed in order to get her Pilot’s License. The Whole Sorry Situation is on display in Detail throughout her videos. If this was my Daughter I would be Absolutely Furious… at Myself and with her Instructors.

Thanks for the report! It takes people like you, Juan and Dan to try to analyze this info. It’s worth all your time to get this out! Now all of her recent videos are private (past 8 months)……… thank you for all your work.Your saving lives!

The video showing her flying was scary to me. She was fixated on the panel, and had no clue what the airplane was doing. She had tunnel vision and couldnt even understand what the controller was saying. Then, to learn she has 400 hours really gets me. I believe she was a victim of her appearance and her money. Her instructors saw dollar signs, and milked her for all she had. She should have been in a C182 for all of her instrument training. Any of her recent instructors are to blame for her and her father's death.

Sadly this girl with 400 hrs. did not understand the fundamentals of flying. She needed truth, facts, and still learning in a 172 with a good instructor.

Very sad. I think her biggest problem was an instructor problem. An instructor problem doesn't always mean the instructor is insufficient. It also means the student is not capable. Jenny seems more interested in narration of video than flying the plane.

Yes, those 3 things contributed to crash. One thing left out is she was also concerned about filming & recording for youtube content. She wasnt ready with experince flying in general, experience flying that particular complex plane & autopilot. No reason to add multiple go pro cameras 📸 at all

i went back and tried watching her channel after the crash hit the news...and without trying to jump on her decision making post mortem was painful to watch her flounder ..and even more aggravating to watch her CFI have no idea what he was doing....he signed off on this

If you’re having trouble with an autopilot, turn it off, set a pitch attitude and power, and trim the pressure off.

Long time ago in the 1980’s my first job as a flight instructor was at Sawyer Aviation in Phoenix. Even though not required our private pilot syllabus consisted of 3 lessons in spin training and recovery. In fact when I trained my instrument students I would put them into a spin under the hood and make them recover. It was a great flight school that made sure pilots were well trained and proficient. Time to time we would have a student that lacked basis stick and rudder skills and instead of just taking their money we stop their training. It’s obvious this person was not qualified to possess a private pilots license. Her situation was exasperated by an incompetent flight instructor. One thing that I’ve learned throughout my career was the pilots with the worst stick and rudder skills were late career changers in their 40”s.

Since the gopros were intact, I'm sure the final report will include more information about that footage, hopefully providing conclusive details; although the root causes seem pretty obvious.

I'm trying to figure out how she managed to fly 400 hours without crashing earlier. Scary thought. Scarier thought? How many more TNFly"pilots" are out there?

Doesnt this point to a failure in the system as much as Jenny? At the end of the day, we have a system that allowed someone like Jenny, who had no business flying around in that aircraft, to not only fly around by herself in that aircraft but take passengers. How many other 'Jennys' are flying around, that have just been lucky to date so we never hear about them. Its cool we are bagging her and saying how awful she is, but when are we going to ask questions of the system that allowed this to take place?

I can't wrap my head around how her and her dad both did not understand how inexperienced she was and how deadly of a potential situation that is for all involved and would even consider going on a long flight like they did with out fear of a bad outcome. Talk about all the cheese holes in the stack lining up. So freaking sad and avoidable.

What just as much of a head scratch is how she got to be a 400 hour pilot and didn't auger in a couple of hundred hours earlier.

She literally couldnt grasp that the Auto Pilot did not automatically control her altitude.

When I was instructing back in the 70's I had several students that just did not have the skills and mindset to successfully and safely continue to pursue further instruction. It was not easy to tell them that, but I did because it was the correct thing to do. If that instructor in this video was typical of the ones she had and I suspect he was, I understand how this tragedy occurred. She had utterly no business in a complex airplane like the Debonair, let alone a 172. Her instructors failed her, period, full stop.

We live in a self-esteem oriented society. When I took flying lessons, the flying instructor was an old military guy, and he used to scream and swear at me.

As a former CFII I can say that today's flight training needs a huge overhaul. The FAA needs to take a hard look at flight instructors and how they instruct. This idea of making videos for the internet with highly inexperinced pilots is insane and should be outlawed. Flying is a wonderul and very safe activity if conducted properly in a properly maintained aircraft. I have thousands of hours flying and instructing, in both IFR an VFR. Also have hundreds of hours doing aerobatics. Flying is a wonderful and fun thing to do if it is done safely. I was a strict instructor as I did not want any of my students to die in a crash. This cavalier attitude towards flying is disgusting and gives general avation a bad rap. Right now the FAA is busy making rules for RC model airplanes when I think they should focus more on full size airplanes and how qualified the people who are getting certificates are to fly them.

She seemed as carefree as if she were in a simulator.

Personally i don't think this woman was smart enough to be flying. From watching her videos you can clearly see that she is a scatter brain, she was basicly living in a fog, and didn't have a clear understanding of anything airplane related. Sometimes just because you have the money to do things, doesn't mean it's a good idea to do it. You can tell she was surrounded by "yes" people who just told her what she wanted to hear because it seems she doesn't take criticism very well, and probably was a hand full to deal with when she was told something she didn't want to hear. That's the vibe i gathered from watching the last 6 of her videos. How anyone let that woman fly an airplane alone is insane. I don't know how she was ever allowed to even do her first solo. Even the very basics of flight were to complex for her mental capacity. She had 400 hours flight time and STILL had no idea that more power is needed to climb. That's pretty much one of the first things any person learns when flying. May she and her father rest in peace, it's a shame that her ignorance and ego killer her father. Such an easily avoidable tragedy.

I watched her videos and yes, as a 400 hr pilot w/ her own a/c, she was behind a lot and struggled w/ AP. However, I can't believe she would "trim-fight" the AP until/into a crash. She recognized this "problem", the effect unfortunately not the cause, in her videos. I'm not going to comment on her Instructor, (thank god my primary flight instruction wasn't filmed), but had any of my former Instructors seen me, a 400 hr pilot, struggle with, & wonder aloud about, the relationship of attitude, power & trim, I would have gotten an ear full & immediately sent back to ground school. Question: with both her & her Dad lost, is there no one to take the videos down? The piling-on should be ended.

As a former CFI, I call this situation a “cluster.” It’s very sad. It did not need to happen, but there are factors involved here…human factors…that are the direct cause of this crash.

Very sad. This lady wanted to be a KZfaq star so much that she killed herself along with her passenger. She shouldn't have been flying that airplane to begin with. The cost of fame can sometimes be extreme folks.

Cockpit automation is tempting young pilots into believing they are invincible. Some of the young CFI’s that I have met are more engrossed in their tablets than the basic mechanics involved in keeping the aircraft aloft. Staring for long periods of time at screens can quickly lead to mental paralysis and task saturation. The autopilot was the last straw. Intended to reduce the workload, it became the main focus of attention and there wasn’t much mental focus to spare. The CFI in that video had the opportunity to shut the flight down but he seemed distracted and confused. I hate to think how he must be feeling right now.

Edited from my comment in your first video of this accident waiting to happen and just adding to what you said in both videos: Jenny was always behind the airplane with poor piloting habits and procedures. I have a totally different opinion of what cause or led up to this accident. But she didn't belong in this airplane and maybe no airplane. Airplanes to this pilot were the means to an objective and it WASN'T aviation. I don't know this woman, but this accident follows some similar characteristics of at least two other accidents, one very recent at Oshkosh in a T-6 and another accident, non-fatal, nearly 90 years ago at Oakland, Ca. only leading to her eventual death. Yes, Earhart was also a terrible, marginal pilot at best. She had several accidents leading up to her eventual loss in the Pacific. Remember her first attempt at circling the globe ended up in an initial takeoff accident in Oakland on the runway! And she thought she could fly around the world. Earhart was all about publicity and her "marriage" to her publisher husband, George Putnam was to further her being in the spotlight. It was to make money and fame. In all three accidents an innocent man was killed. Maybe Fred Noonan wasn't as innocent. In any event, TNflygirl didn't belong in that airplane or any complex airplane and yes I watch a few of her other videos, and she was almost always behind the airplane and I am glad I wasn't in her log book. Another irreplaceable airplane destroyed. But there seems to be no shortage of pilots with poor judgement.

Ive seen comments from people who knew her saying that she wasn't a good driver either

The CFI appeared to be just as confused as she was

her cfi seemed like he was just as far behind the aircraft as she was.

So very sad. RIP Jenny and her dad.

I was so bad, my instructor didn't let me solo until 40 hours in a Piper Tomahawk, with nothing but the bare bones instruments. After 200 hours, I realized I did not have what it takes to fly and stopped. My only two cents is that the first thing I wanted to know about the autopilot was to how deactivate it when I moved up to a Piper Warrior PA-160 and I would only engage it at level trimmed flight at sufficient altitude and when I was exactly on course.

Doesn't the FAA look at CFI's, like this one, for incompetency issues? His incompetency is frightening, and deserves to be looked into in my opinion.

She wasn't sharp enough to be a Pilot. I saw her videos before the crash and recognized the danger. Some people are just not cut out to fly airplanes. You may want to be a Surgeon or an NFL Quarterback, but not everyone has the skills...

We all have bad flying days, but in her case, that CFI would have done her a favor to require her to get better with a rental Cessna before continuing training in the Beechcraft. And, I get that a constant speed prop feels super weird to transition over and can break your brain. Maybe that’s all she needed-some more time with a much slower fixed gear plane with a constant speed prop. That or basic PPL maneuvers in the Beechcraft before moving on to instrument flying.

I feel bad for thinking this, I'm only a very low hours student Pilot, but to me, she seemed completely lost and forgot the basics, obsession with the AP when she clearly wasn't competent to operate it, she reminded me of a new Driver trying to program a SATNAV while on the move, so sad to see her lose her and her fathers life over this.

SO like i said in the beginning she was not proficient enough to fly without and experienced pilot or CFI sitting beside her. The elevator trim 5 degrees out should have been an easy recovery for a pilot with 400 hours. So my take away is she stalled the plane, it nosed over and the first thing she probably did was haul back on the yoke with the power still on. I wonder if she ever did any power on and off stall training. An accident and two lives lost that could have been avoided if the CFI's had been blunt and told her she wasn't ready. I hope the NTSB investigates that flight school and the examiner who signed off on her PPL. They are very clearly and partly to blame for this.

She needed to have a lesson in basic aircraft control in vfr conditions looking outside. Then once that was mastered, a ground school on BAI flying. As the instructor, you can make a chart showing what pitch & power settings results in what performance (airspeed and fpm). After she memorized that, then you go out and fly that til it’s 2nd nature. Then & only then are they ready to start shooting approaches etc. Basically BAI boot camp. Too bad, unnecessary & tragic. Sad

Thank you for an honest assessment. Prayers go out for her family.

Interesting that none of these types of comments about her lack of skill are in the video comments before her crash. If people had been making these comments before the crash, it might have helped to safe her life.

As much as the comments regarding culpability about the CFI are warranted, what about the FAA and their DPEs? Given the apparent lack of basic skills, it seems unlikely likely she could have passed the ACS expectations for private pilot checkride. There appear to be far too many pilots given their certificates that don’t understand the basic physics of aerodynamics and the operation of avionics and related systems like autopilots. Based on my first couple of CFIs at a 141 farm, many early (young) pilots are doing bare minimum to pass to a standard, without understanding it properly (since they can’t answer in depth questions when asked). An extension of currency vs proficiency, and surprising that the FAA and the DPEs are not mentioned more in the commentary to these types of accidents.

After watching her videos, she in no way had the experience to be flying like she did. Way behind the airplane and clueless with the autopilot.

Thanks for making this. safety and education is a constant in aviation.

I don’t agree that they eliminated those bullet points, they said the damage was too extensive to determine anything.

CFIT for sure. 5 deg nose down trim could easily overwhelm the pilot if A/P switched off, and once airspeed rapidly increases, the control force to overcome this nose down trim would be near impossible to reverse on the yoke. Witness said it came in at 60 deg nose down angle and with 228 knot ground speed, plus 118 knots down (11,900 ft/min = 118 knots) at this angle yields an airspeed of 304 knots, which is 80 knots above Vne. Some people just do not have the right stuff to be pilots! It is a shame no one took her aside and explained she didn't possess the skill or acuity to do it, especially in this high performance beast! (it's nothing to do with male or female, there are lots of males I would not trust to change a toilet paper roll, let alone fly a plane)

Hopefully the recovered GoPros will yield footage to confirm this initial report and add further missing information. It is difficult to understand how these two people were so successful in their businesses and yet so clueless about something so unforgivable as flying pretty much in a lawn chair with balloons in a storm every time she went into the air.

I’m a CFII, MEI, and female (only pertinent because I’m just waiting to hear the comments from the peanut gallery that WOMEN shouldn’t fly…or drive cars…) I have flown for almost 30 years. I’ve had one older male student who had problems fixating on an unreliable DG and went 60 degrees off course on the intermediate approach segment. Once corrected, he did okay. But then, he was on downwind for a normal landing, and his altitude was 200 feet low. When I said something about it, he fussed at me. Every time he has called ever since, inquiring about an IPC, I just begged off. I don’t have the heart to tell him why 😱 Not only was this young CFI a softie, which is fine, but he didn’t even try to correct her errors. He didn’t even seem like he knew where in the Sam Hill he was or what he was doing. He not only read back an incorrect heading, but altitude as well. Wow. How did any of these people pass checkrides???

Very sad and the CFI should be ashamed. Having said that and following this story and those that tried to help her she rejected a lot of advise and help or thought she knew what she was doing. Not saying these instructors and others should have pushed her more but anyone who has dealt with stubborn or borderline narcissistic people know its hard to reach them sometime to their own demise.

One of her videos dated a month ago, which apparently wasn't completed, was titled "What could possibly go wrong", tells you everything you need to know about her careless behavior.

This looks like a cfi problem, just a matter of time before an incident happened

The CFI after this one, was actually not bad. Its going to be a good, yet somber lesson to all aviators, new/old and in between. Superior decision making, trumps superior skills, every f***n time. Really felt bad for her, as I watched her learn and progress over some months, and cheered her on, but the simple pitch/power training isnt there. Plenty of ppl have commented on her other videos to get a C172 or equivalent, Instagram, tiktok arent in the plane, fly the plane, you dont have command, the plane is commanding you, you're father isnt a pilot, etc.. Plenty of ppl with more money than sense, but a life is a life regardless.

100% agree! She should never have been in that airplane and her CFI should have his license revoked. He has no business teaching anyone to fly. This is tragic and the reason I will not sign anyone off on any initial certification or renewal unless they 100% meet the standards which clearly she did not and I wonder where this CFI is now? I would sure like a few words with him!!!

CFI should have his license revoked.

Holy crap what the hell is wrong with this CFII? I instructed foreign students back in the 90s…..talk about challenging.

Sadly, I think she concentrated too much on how to be a great “UTube star” and not a great pilot. Was more concerned with how she looked on camera. Such a tragic end for her and her family. The true price of fame.

Wonder if her flight instructors will get in trouble.We all see,from her videos,she was not proficient,at aii,as a pilot.Now the NTSB states that she didn't meet minimum proficiency standards.

The CFI is not meeting any standards either.... it's amatuer hour there....

When the money in the wallet exceeds the experience in the log book stuff likes this happens. She is just another example of this premise. Sad.

I stoped watching her videos because she had no advancement beyond her first instruction flight , my conclusion was this was going to be the result when she was issued a license

Nobody EVER should activate an AP until they at least know how to turn the damn thing off and hand fly the aircraft, which she apparently did not know how to do. She really need a lot of practice hand flying without distractions, an understanding of when and how to trim in various phases of flight etc etc...she probably should have found some other activity to base her YT income on, she didn't seem to have any knack for flying, and I'm not sure that a LOT of time in a 172 WITHOUT ever turning on an AP would have given her the reflexes and understanding she needed to survive.

Too much airplane. Too little experience. No pilot is immune. This has happened many times.

apparently and unfortunately she wasnt qualified/competent to pilot this aircraft

Textbook example of in over your head.

An "instructor" who can't even read back ATC directions accurately (150 vs 130hdg), clearly has ZERO clue where they even are on the approach, what the published approach segment altitudes were, appropriate aircraft reconfiguring (flaps) phase for a GAround, and likes to talk way too much, both to the student and ATC...Seriously? That sorry boy showed the situational awareness of at best a sea sponge. Sadly, I'd not be the least bit surprised to someday see him starring in an equally tragic accident report. If that clueless kid was typical of her "instructors" the poor woman was "trained" to be an accident waiting to happen...Words just fail me further.

Analogous to the hordes of aspiring mountain climbers who pay $$ to summit Everest but lack experience and end up dead or crippled. Some people aren’t cut out to be pilots. No disgrace in admitting it. Very sad ending.

Tragic events for sure but I can’t help feeling that sadly Jenny was an accident waiting to happen.

Watching the first CFI did not doher and favors! Instead of teaching her how everything worked, he did the work forher. FAA should revoke his CFI License, he clearly saw she could not handle a complex aircraft and recomend she go back to say a C-172 until she had more experience! He basically set her up to die!

It boils down to the fact that she exceeded her limitations! It is sad to say! 🤯🛫

How on earth is that guy a CFI???? 😡

What I don't understand is how two adults could not arrest a descent straight into the ground from 6000 ft. I had wished that the initial report would have found a structural defect (so much for the myth about the V Tail Bonanza not being strong). That she truly was not that incompetent but it does seem so. I had subscribed to her channel way back when cause she was easy on the eyes and it was interesting, but like most of you, I quickly realized she was way behind the plane. One of the keys to this, was the way she would start chewing her gum. It got slower and slower as she tried to think about what was happening and what to do about it. It's just so sad and was preventable. I hope some of the other young women pilots (FlyWithKay, Baron Pilot, Stevie Triesenberg) will watch these videos and learn from them, especially Baron Pilot. In my opinion she is another accident waiting to happen.

Good video. FYI Your mic was too far up from your month. The CFI was clueless and shouldn’t have been instructing anyone! She didn’t seem to respond to anything. Just stared at the panel like she didn’t know what she was looking at! Shame, real shame!

One factor is that she owned the plane, so telling her what to do was more difficult. She wasn't accountable to anybody. As a business woman she probably thought getting a cheap young instructor was a good economic decision. I can't imagine he had a lot of happy clients. In one video all he did was take photos, some at her behest.

Sadly, she had no idea of how to properly operate the autopilot. Add to that her constant trim issues. I agree with the OP, she wasnt ever "out front of the plane"..she was always "behind it".

Two things make a great pilot: Skill & Judgement. Too many pilots fly with their trim tab and autopilot. Stop staring at the instrument panel.

her instructors saw a pretty girl and that's the problem no one would tell her you cant fly !! she did not have the skill but that's clearly the flight school or what ever's fault. I feel bad for her and family's misfortune

She stopped using the better CFI for some reason.

A majority of my ifr training I would demonstrate on the ground before we even took to the air. For one reason I was a linemen slinging avgas/JetA and couldn't afford any "duh" moments while training. Any time spent going "what" got expensive. For sure you learned a/c systems/ap/procedures/routes/a plan etc before getting that Hobbs moving and ATC staring at you in the air.

I'm just an arm chair aviation enthusiast, but I have watched many, many flying videos here on YT the last couple of years. That said, I have noticed that a good number of CFIs in those videos are relatively young. Young enough for me to notice and think, if I was learning to fly, I think I'd like an older instructor, someone with more experience. Goggle says the minimum age requirement for a CFI is 18 years of age. Should that be increased?

No blame and no judgement on the people, but I see faults in the instruction and processes that allowed Jenny to progress before she was ready. She didn’t know what she didn’t know and was relying on the training and trainers as guardrails. Guardrails work by guiding away from the danger, just like Jenny’s training should have guided her to focus on basic skills.

That CFI was in other videos with her.... something just didn't seem right about this guy as an instructor....he seemed like just someone who was along for the ride and not really teaching her anything..... I wonder what he thinks now about two people who are now dead.

If the NTSB has data from her cameras, I'm sure they know exactly what happened. Probably not fun footage to watch.

Well you said it...time to blame the CFI's. He was horrible, a joke, scary. Allowing her (both of them) to descend 900 ft low, when they were instructed to be at 2,500 ft? What the actual phuque!!! Flaps. left down in the climb, duh! Neither one belonged as PIC.

Someone is hiding/deleting her videos on her page. Maybe a lawsuit inbound?

Rule 1 Aviate Rule 2 See Rule 1 Hope the CFI is never let loose in an Airline...

Very good analysis. I was baffled that she used the autopilot without reading the manual first… and yes she was wayyy behind the plane at every step. Maybe it’s a good thing all this isn’t mentioned in the media. It would be embarrassing to our community.

So many questions still! First, how in the world did she pass her PPL Practical with an Examiner? Seriously! This goes back to at least this point.

What happened to the digital recording devices on board? Were they not reviewed?

Absolutely pathetic! She was so concentrated on just flying the plane while the CFI handles all the communication and instrumentation verification. This was just a classic case of "an accident waiting to happen".