Pilot axed air traffic control to switch from IFR to VFR, tried a low altitude 270 degree turn for the other runway, 3 mile visibility, axed for the runway lights to be turned up (they were at 100%), CLIMBED a couple hundred feet during the hard tight turn, stalled and augered in. Pure chance that he hit the road.
2:10 from Lionel
That’s weird. Why the unnecessary maneuver using VFR?
There's a Ring video that showed the plane burst into flame at what appeared to be 200 or 300 feet up. No power lines that high. Can't figure out what happened. Unless he clipped a power line on the climb and it didn't ignite right away.