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Quote Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68 View Post
The bit of the article I find strange is "In their preliminary report, the AAIB said that because Mr Ibbotson's pilot licence and log book had been lost in the crash, it had not yet been able to establish what ratings he held or how many hours he had flown recently - although it was known he had completed approximately 3,700 flying hours."

How does the AAIB know that Ibbotson's pilot licence and log book have been lost in the crash? Who's to say he didn't have them on him or on the aircraft at the time of the crash. Could they possibly be at his home, or elsewhere perhaps?[/
Does the pilot himself fill in the paperwork himself? You’d have thought there’d be a third party involved verifying the entries with copies available in anticipation of accidents like this. If every pilot carried his paperwork on his person on every flight on the rare occasion of a tragedy like this all paperwork would always be lost, that’s mad.