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>A fatal flight in Kentucky last week—involving a CFI using Snapchat to demean a young student pilot—was entirely preventable.
>McKellar’s Snapchat story begins with him talking to the camera and shaking his head along with the caption, “me and this student should not get along if he was my full-time student. I’ve seen faster at the Special Olympics.”
>McKellar expresses impatience with Quisenberry who “wanted to have a conversation” when the instructor wants to get the flight over with because he has to be up at 4:30 a.m. McKellar refers to Quisenberry as “Forrest Gump.”
>The final Snapchat posted by McKellar shows a preview of the flight path from Bowling Green to Owensboro over top radar showing severe storms heading toward them. McKellar circles the storms and writes, “headed are [sic] way like a group of pissed off hornets.”
>It has not escaped the instructor community that McKellar, who was critical of the intellectual capacity of Quisenberry, uses “are” instead of “our” in his post. And continued the flight into a thunderstorm.
