Right Wing Loons Lose Family In DC Small Plane Crash

[LurchAddams]

It was a Cessna, that is an unpressurized plane. Now it may be possible he tried to fly too high, but that is also unlikely. There is something that must have incapacitated the pilot. The plane was unresponsive to radio and on auto pilot.

It must have been terrifying to be one of the passengers and have no way to resolve the issue.

Yes, it was a Cessna, but a Cessna Citation - a small jet engine-powered craft with a cruising altitude of up to 43,000 feet. You need a pressurized cabin to fly that high.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=cessna...&ghacc=0&ghpl=

[LurchAddams]

That's a big plus in aviation: high speed crashes are almost instant death, although it appears these four may have been dead befor impact due to oxygen starvation.

The Kobe Bryant crash was a high speed impact event...if counting anything over 100kts to be high speed. The S76 cruises up to 155kts, but was probably slightly slower in the 120-140 range.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/232468
Date: 26-JAN-2020
Time: 11:45 LT
Type: Silhouette image of generic S76 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Sikorsky S-76B
Owner/operator: Island Express Holding Corp
Registration: N72EX
MSN: 760379
Fatalities: Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Category: Accident
Location: Calabasas, Los Angeles County, CA - United States of America
Phase: En route
Nature: Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport: Santa Ana-John Wayne International Airport, CA (SNA/KSNA)
Destination airport: Camarillo Airport, CA (KCMA)
Investigating agency: NTSB
Confidence Rating: Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Narrative:
A Sikorsky S-76B helicopter, registered N72EX, impacted hilly terrain in Calabasas, Los Angeles County, California. All nine on board died. Five-time NBA Champion Kobe Bryant was among those on board.

Yep, as I posted earlier the occupants likely asphyxiated prior to the jet running out of fuel and crashing - like what happened to Payne Stewart.

[Hawkeye10]

This event, and the after effects to include the conversation, sucks.

[Doc Dutch]

Yep, as I posted earlier the occupants likely asphyxiated prior to the jet running out of fuel and crashing - like what happened to Payne Stewart.

Just going to sleep. Back in the day when I was flying out of Miami, whenever the drunks got too rowdy, we'd bump the cabin altitude up to 7,000-8,000 feet and they'd all go to sleep.

This is a drone, but similar to helicopter flight: it's 9mb so slower wifis may take a bit to load.

[Doc Dutch]

A little smaller, a little faster:

[T. A. Gardner]

It was a Cessna, that is an unpressurized plane. Now it may be possible he tried to fly too high, but that is also unlikely. There is something that must have incapacitated the pilot. The plane was unresponsive to radio and on auto pilot.

It must have been terrifying to be one of the passengers and have no way to resolve the issue.

No, it was a Cessna Citation business jet.



These are pressurized and almost always fly routes at 25,000 to 45,000 feet in altitude. They are pressurized because at those altitudes you die in minutes and pass out within seconds if the cabin depressurizes.

[Lightbringer]

Tragic, sad, and karmic all at once.

Initially, it seemed as if the military took down the private craft that invaded DC airspace. It turns out the pilot was unconscious.

Florida Businessman Says ‘Entire Family’ Was on Crashed Plane Behind D.C. Chaos









It seems as if some things were 'meant to be'.

You are an evil little thing, a horrible person.

[Doc Dutch]

Tragic, sad, and karmic all at once....
...It seems as if some things were 'meant to be'.

[ThatOwlWoman]

No - you didn't like my answer and you kept hounding me to change it. I'm just not as compliant as those to whom you're accustomed.

And not nearly as psychotic, drunk, and drugged-out as her JPP married (to someone else of course) boyfriend.

[ThatOwlWoman]

^^^
The Melon-Picker goes after evince instead of correcting Damo. No small wonder why, but here's a hint: he's a C-O-W-_-_-D.

This accident has the same indications as the Payne Stewart crash; another small bizjet that lost pressurization at high altitude. It flew on autopilot until it ran out of gas. The F-16s sent up to intercept reported seeing the inside of the cockpit and passenger windows iced over. All were probably dead from hypoxia before it ran out of fuel.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/314788

Date: 04-JUN-2023
Time: c. 15:25
Type: Silhouette image of generic C560 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Cessna 560 Citation V
Owner/operator: Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc
Registration: N611VG
MSN: 560-0091
Fatalities: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4

Narrative:
A Cessna 560 Citation V disappeared from radar screens and crashed near Staunton, Virginia.
The four occupants died and the aircraft was destroyed.

ADS-B data show that the airplane conducted a course reversal about 1h15m into the flight, the airplane flew past the reported destination of Long Island MacArthur Airport (KISP), New York, and continued on a straight path for about 50m. The data shows that the airplane began a rapid descending right spiral from 34000 feet, followed by another spiral at 20000 feet, the last ADS-B return showed an average rate of -28864 ft/min.

About the only good thing about this tragedy is that they probably didn't suffer, you think? Just fell asleep. Otherwise the pilot could have taken the plane down to an altitude where there was oxygen.

[Doc Dutch]

About the only good thing about this tragedy is that they probably didn't suffer, you think? Just fell asleep. Otherwise the pilot could have taken the plane down to an altitude where there was oxygen.

Just fell asleep. If the pilot had a medical issue, there one of the other passengers could have been seen in the cockpit since there's only a little curtain on bizjets.

I'm certain all were unconscious before the plane rolled and dove. One report said they were descending at 28,000 fpm, which is too fast for them to regain consciousness before impact. Even if they began to stir, the impact would have meant instant death.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Just fell asleep. If the pilot had a medical issue, there one of the other passengers could have been seen in the cockpit since there's only a little curtain on bizjets.

I'm certain all were unconscious before the plane rolled and dove. One report said they were descending at 28,000 fpm, which is too fast for them to regain consciousness before impact. Even if they began to stir, the impact would have meant instant death.

Plus if they were aware of pilot problems, they would have had cell phones to at least alert someone.

[Doc Dutch]

Plus if they were aware of pilot problems, they would have had cell phones to at least alert someone.

...not that it would have done them much good.

I always have to shake my head when newscasters lament "no distress call was sent". Well no shit! The pilots were a little fucking busy! Part of Flying 101 is Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. A pilot in the middle of an emergency who hasn't set the plane up for flying and pointed in the right direction before calling on the radio is an idiot.

[Althea]

Yes I hope they do

So they will stop funding deaths

Well...given the fact that they committed their entire real estate portfolio to a trust benefitting the NRA already, having nobody else to leave it to now won't sting so much.

[TOP]

You are an evil little thing, a horrible person.

He sure is...