The pilot was acting stupidly—probably helped by fatigue and lack of sleep.
Other planes landed just fine. Shapiro blew it.
“Shapiro was flying below the minimum crossing altitude as he approached the airport. Roughly two miles away from the airport, he struck power transmission lines about 95 feet above the ground, slicing the tail of his plane and damaging the stabilizers.”
I know nothing about air traffic control, so maybe I don’t understand some things. But I was shocked to learn that there are no air traffic control people in that airport in the middle of the night. Which makes me wonder, why are airplanes apparently allowed to land at an unstaffed airfield.
Considering it was a foggy night, there were no air traffic control people at that airport, the runway lights were not working, add it all up, and we see a tragic accident.
DEI Pilot?
I never heard of the musician or his band, but I’m sorry he was killed.
Lots of holes in that Swiss cheese, but the bottom line is this hot shot pilot was attempting to land below weather miniums and found out why there are minimums.
..The Pilot had a terminal case of “get thereitits”. We were informed that he took all of those risks because he had parked his car at that airport.
Never allow your/a music producer to be your (single) pilot.
“Shapiro was flying below the minimum crossing altitude as he approached the airport”
The flight path documented by ADS-B is well aligned with the approach horizontally and vertically as it crossed the final approach fix (PENYY) at 2,500 feet, though it deviated below the procedure as the aircraft crossed the final waypoint PALOS.
A male pilot...
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The video can be found here: www.youtube.com
At about the thirteen minute mark, Captain Steve states that the plane size precluded it from the type of approach the pilot was making.
>beloved
Fox is always doing this: “Music legend _________ croaks”.
Everyone scratches head together. “Who?”
They seem obsessed with some tatted creature, ‘Jellyroll’?
The day the music died again?