Terrain doesn’t care about your logbook.
Turning back with 60 feet margin? Impossible.
A Cherokee Six is tough, but physics wins.
Too late for a canyon turn once the nose is high.
Alaska CFIT stats speak for themselves.
Fatigue + routine routes = complacency risk.
Survivors were lucky a Cessna spotted them.
2,800 hours didn’t protect against hesitation.
Waiting that extra 20 seconds cost lives.
Controlled flight straight into a ridge.