| SAFETY PILOT LANDMARK ACCIDENT | A final turn Base to final and everything in between BY BRUCE LANDSBERG I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y S A R A H J O N E S BEWARE THE TURN FROM BASE TO FINAL APPROACH. You may have heard this before. This month's Landmark Accident qualifies not because it's unusual, but because it is not. Cross-control stalls don't happen only to newbies. There is a possible underlying gotcha in the tragic narrative that made a seemingly simple traffic pattern anything but. There's always temptation to believe that we would never make such a mistake, yet this accident proves otherwise. SUMMARY > Experienced pilot encounters extreme tailwind on base leg and falls victim to a stall in the base-to-final turn. www.aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 79http://www.aopa.org/pilot