Why was the fuel selector valve in the OFF position when JFK JR,S was found?

Question

Pilots don't just switch the fuel selector valve of mid flight

This Raises serious question about the death of JFK Jr. I don't agree with the accusations against Bush or Kissinger, but I believe there is substantial evidence that another person was in the plane and that person dove the plane into the water

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Answer 1

Nice, Bossman.

He's correct, and here's my 2 cent's. JFK I am sure was a great guy, but he like most people with more money than brains in an aircraft normally have very little business being there. That aircraft from what I heard was loaded with avionics. That means it probably had a great autopilot considering the A-C only had like 646 hour’s, I don’t know the year. All he should have done as soon as he detected he was overwhelmed, was turn on the autopilot. Then go the land way home. I have flown with doc’s that always took someone with them; they always say “better to have two sets of eye balls”. No. This is taken from the NTSB report

“In the 15 months before the accident, the pilot had flown either to or from the

Destination area about 35 times. The pilot flew at least 17 of these flight legs without a CFI on board, of which 5 were at night.

Within 100 days before the accident”.

So more or less he had no time by him self not depending on his CFI to say “heading……altitude..heading………….altitude... He probably didn’t want him using the autopilot as far as that goes, for training purposes. You should always understand your avionics. They would have saved 3 lives that night. Doing that crossing in that WX  and probably some smog is HARD IFR. I live in Michigan if you couldn’t guess. I have been crossing our lakes since three day’s after my private ride. It can be very Creepy to say the very least, even in dead of summer when the WX is CAVU. In the summer haze it’s IFR just a couple miles off shore. He had made 5 night crossings without an instructor. He lost it. The great lakes a Full of planes from this type of thing. Nobody else was in the plane.

Pipers have a lock on the fuel selector so you have to do some finger gymnastics to shut off the fuel or use both hands. The NTSB report state’s nothing about the fuel being turned off. If he turned off the fuel (which he didn’t) then why didn’t he turn on the autopilot? The last indication is that they hit the water at a very nose down attitude in excess of 4700 fpm. Or 53.4 mph down. They probably were going faster. Aircraft are beer cans, not a suburban. Crunchhhhhhh. 10 cents please. ( MI beer can deposit price)

Answer 2

what rthe h**l are you talking about what is the connection of the aircraft that JFK rode and the shooting at  his head by an assassin?

Answer 3

"JR,S"?

Answer 4

the only thing that killed JFK jr was JFK jr.....he was an inexperienced pilot in a complex aircraft, did not have the instrument flying skills for the conditions present at the time of flight and fell prey to spatial disorientation...i, like most intsrument rated pilots, have flown in those types of conditions, and you can't tell up from down without a good reference to the horizon, and if you don't knwo what you're doing on instruments, you'll quickly lose your orientation and spiral into the ground (or water) the same way he did.....we have this clearly demonstrated during training when an instructor will induce this condition and it's real and scary just to know that you can be that disoriented with a small lapse of attention.....perhaps if the fuel selector was off, it was a last ditch effort by him to avert a fire in the imminent crash he knew was coming.  as an experienced pilot, i for one, resent the poor light he casts on private pilots in general by a stupid accident such as this one and it goes to prove the point once again that just because someone can afford an aircraft, doesn't mean they have any business behind the controls.....some of the best pilots i know have to scrape together pennies to get time in while the doctors and attorneys who can afford it have no clue what they're doing in the new toy they just bought. he should have stayed on the ground given the conditions at time of flight, but ego, and a perceived pressure to 'get there regardless of weather' were what brought him down....nothing else.....his own stupidity and ego

Answer 5

If it was a forced landing the pilot in command would have switched the fuel valve to off in preparation for landing. Don't forget the valve may have been moved during impact.