Posted on 12/12/2012 8:58:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
The small plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged in a nose-dive from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground at more than 600 mph, Mexico's top transportation official said.
Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, Mexico's secretary of communications and transportation, offered a Mexican radio station the first detailed accounts of the moments leading up to the crash that killed Rivera and six other people aboard the Learjet on Sunday.
The plane practically nose-dived," Ruiz told Radio Formulate. "The impact must have been terrible."
Ruiz said the 43-year-old aircraft hit the ground 1.2 miles from where it began falling and that it plummeted at a nearly 45-degree angle. The plane left Monterrey around 3:30 a.m. Sunday after a concert performance. According to authorities, controllers lost contact with the U.S.-registered plane about 10 minutes after takeoff.
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Just guessing (former fighter pilot and USAF mishap investigator, here).
Yes, they were frozen. Plane lost all pressure. Passengers likely passed out before freezing to death. Sad day for golf fans!
A Chrysler Town & Country...
Just say’in.
I hate to fly.
Unless it is due to a medical reason (stroke, heart attack, etc) or a loss of O2, you would not lose consciousness.
600 mph is 880 feet per second. 28000 divided by 880 = 32 seconds.
My guess, cabin pressure issue, auto pilot off.
If the old captain vapor locked, the co pilot could take over. So doubt that.
28,000 ft is where things get real quick and dangerous in terms of altitude. Makes sense to me if the cabin didn’t pressurize, then that’s about where everybody would pass out. If auto pilot is on, plane keeps going till fuel runs out, like Payne Stewart. Auto pilot off, quickly out of control. BOOM!
(highly experienced pilot guess)
All had passed out due to loss of O2. . .the F-16 chase planes could only fly alongside and watch.
It was a slow 600mph.
28K feet? Loss of cabin pressure?
Good guess.
We great minds think alike. . .
If that’s a pic of this accident it is not as described. That plane went in most likely in a spin. Upright, spinning down like a playing card. Had it nose dived in from on high there would be very little recognizable as an airplane. Doesn’t change my guess. Loss of cabin pressure, (or cabin failed to pressurize) led to loss of consciousness due to lack of O2, led to loss of control.
More like 45 MPH and 6 degrees.
2 minutes is a long time really.
That bird looks way too small to be the one in question, and way too self-contained to match the description of the crash.
We lost a medflight crew in our area in the past few days and there was a bigger debris field from a chopper that may have been going about 80mph and almost straight in.
That bird looks way too small to be the one in question, and way too self-contained to match the description of the crash.
We lost a medflight crew in our area in the past few days and there was a bigger debris field from a chopper that may have been going about 80mph and almost straight in.
Jim Croce.
Paul McCartney.
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