im sure hed flown that route many many times and knew the terrain he was starting to fly over....should have just stayed low, SLOWED DOWN, and just returned to Van Nuys....nope, he just had to get there...
I suspect the NTSB will look into to see if the pilot made any attempt at flight planning that day. A resident near the crash site said the fog was the worse he had seen it in the 17 years he lived there..
Why couldn’t he follow the 101 low Altitude......I don’t know minimum altitude allowedin Los Angeles county?
Actually the pilot wasn’t on his usual path because of the heavy cloud cover. The one that he chose instead followed a highway. Which could have worked as a guide if he had been able to see it, but in addition to a low cloud ceiling there was exceptionally heavy fog. There wasn’t just one bad decision going on.