Corporate flight department leadership and pilot decision-making skills emerge among critical factors that resulted in two fatal general aviation accidents. At a Jan. 28 hearing here, the NTSB revealed its findings related to two crashes in July 2007-one involving a Cessna 310R, "an accident [that was] made even more tragic because it could have been so easily avoided," according to NTSB acting Chairman Mark Rosenker. The other involved a midair collision between two electronic news-gathering (ENG) helicopters in Phoenix. On July 10, 2007, at 8:35 a.m. EDT, the Cessna 310R-a twin-engine fixed-wing aircraft in the National Assn. for Stock Car Auto Racing (Nascar) fleet-crashed while executing an emergency diversion to Orlando Sanford (Fla.) International Airport. The flight crew-a commercial pilot and an airline transport pilot-and three people on the ground were killed and four seriously wounded; the airplane and two homes were destroyed.
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