[...described the plane as ‘kind of big’...]
At first glance, I thought this was a new FAA DEI hire, but it was actually a civilian witness.
Folks that are searching probably should talk to the folks that recovered the wreckage.
DEI leads to DIE. you Know your thinking it too.
“One witness described the plane as ‘kind of big’ adding that she heard the engine ‘puttering’
Sheesh!
When Clint Eastwood was in the Army his plane crashed off of Point Reyes Peninsula near San Francisco.
“It’s not clear how many people were on board at the time of the crash.”
If it was a larger aircraft, then it would have been flown by a more experienced pilot who would have filed a flight plan.
They include basic information such as departure and arrival points, estimated time en route, alternate airports in case of bad weather, type of flight (whether instrument flight rules [IFR] or visual flight rules [VFR]), the pilot’s information, number of people on board, and information about the aircraft itself.
That would have answered those questions about who, what , where.
wy69
When I was a young Silicon Valley Engineer with a new pilots license, this was a great long lunch trip to fly Palo Alto to Half Moon Bay for fish and chips at that restaurant. There was a looong taxiway with parking at one end of the airfield that had a gate close to town.
If a “”reporter” can’t provide more info than this, maybe they should just wait. Based on this story, it could have been a Cessna, could have been a 747.