[Angelino97]

Daily Mail reporting that “up to ten feared dead.”

[Big Red Badger]

My old Stomping Grounds...

[Zhang Fei]

You have to wonder what % of private plane mishaps consists of passengers making unreasonable demands of pilots.

[Red Badger]

AVIATION PING.....................

[Red Badger]

CESSNA 550

[Delta 21]

860 gal of Jet fuel. 5800 lbs. Probly full at takeoff.

[SaxxonWoods]

Pilots without instrument ratings flying into heavy weather is a common cause of crashes. Aviation people call it the “gotta-goes”. Is it time to require instrument ratings to fly a plane?

[Bigbrown]

The funnest airplane I’ve ever flown and one of the most forgiving. I currently hold a type rating on it but I don’t actively flight.

[T.B. Yoits]

Pinging SkyDancer

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Jet hits residential neighborhood, 15 homes on fire, and “no residents of the community required hospitalization.”

If that is true, it’s a true miracle.

[Mean Daddy]

I can watch planes take off and land from my home office window. They get executive jets a 1/2 dozen times per week. Generally speaking, they typically take off N to S, S to N which is left, right or right left to me depending on the wind direction but once in a while we get a Cessna 172 that takes a severe turn over our house to do their touch and go’s and it makes you wonder sometimes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

3:45 a.m. Was it taking off or landing?

Fifteen homes on fire at 3:45 a.m. and nobody in the homes needed hospitalization? Everybody had to be sound asleep at home.

[Rio]

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N666DS/history/20250522/0735Z/KAAO/KMYF

N666DS (tail number of the beast?)

Registered to Daviator LLC in Homer, AK.

[zipper]

So far it seems the pilot flew an illegal approach, and poorly at that. Probably didn’t have a legal alternate either, given the weather.

The Citation 550 is a Cat C aircraft. The approach had no Cat C or D minimums, there were only A & B mins (both 3/4 mile visibility).

From the ADS-B data looks like he got low on the (illegal) approach and ran into trees or power lines.

Reckless, both in planning and execution.

[Danie_2023]

“”Authorities later confirmed that all of the fatalities were aboard the aircraft and no residents of the community required hospitalization.””

That is a stunning miracle. Fifteen houses on fire, 3:45 am in the morning with people still in bed, but no fatalities or even serious injuries? How does that happen, exactly (if not by God).

As for the fog issue, the jet had to have instruments showing the plane’s altitude....right? Did the pilot fall asleep? Really weird.