“Obamacide? “
Unlikely. This would be one heck of a complicated hit if it was planned. There were WAY too many things that could have gone wrong. It’s much simpler to just have them die cleaning a gun. Or, alternatively, they could accidently overdose. The could have an allergic reaction. A hit and run is always popular. A fatal late night mugging is an option. But buggering an engine, then having somebody on board who could make sure she was killed...WAY too many things could go wrong with that, including the plane auguring in and killing the killer.
Maybe a target of opportunity?
I agree with you that AS A PLAN this would not be a very good one.
Or a leisurely stroll through Ft. Marcy Park.
Depends on who the killer is.
And a Cessna engine failure 50 days earlier could have been a practice round. The NTSB has had an intact engine to work with, in an airport hangar, and still haven’t said what caused that engine’s failure. These 2 engine failures were within 25 miles of each other and 50 days. In the whole previous 33 years there had only been 2 engine failures with this plane. Within 50 days and 25 miles that number doubled.
The NTSB has not been following their protocols for securing the evidence, in EITHER Cessna crash.
Otherwise, they would have been much farther from land if the engine was buggered to quit.
That might make landing and/or rescue much more of a problem. No one worried much about the other people on Ron Brown's plane...and this would have been just another tragic accident with all hands lost.
Examination of the engine should be done either way, just for aircraft safety concerns.