Posted on 01/03/2018 8:55:26 PM PST by Eyes Unclouded
HOUSTON - U.S. Coast Guard officials are trying to make contact with a Texas-bound, single-engine plane they say is missing. Officials say the plane took off from Oklahoma City Wednesday and was headed to Georgetown Municipal Airport but diverted at some point and headed south. Coast Guard officials say they lost contact with the pilot after the plane flew past Freeport. The New Orleans Coast Guard is sending a plane to make communication with the aircraft. Officials have not said at this time whether the plane crash. They are labeling the incident an "aircraft emergency." It is unknown at this time how many people were aboard the plane.
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Another CEO with links to the Clinton “Foundation”?
They had a ‘house fire’ earlier today the Clinton’s did.
Burning up all traces.
Sounds like a sudden loss of cabin pressure and all on board became unconscious. Happens quite a bit.
Which Clinton “friends” were on the plane?
Creepy. Payne Stewart.
The plane was a Cirrus sr22t. Turbo charged, non pressurized single engine 4 seat. The occupants would have needed oxygen to fly at fl190, which is where they were.
Fuddy Airlines owned by Killary & Co?
fl190 = 9,000 feet, yes?
FL190 = 19000 feet. 9000 feet is survivable without pressurization or oxygen masks and this wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, they were 10K higher.
Or 19,000?
Silly for me to ask, probably, but would modern unpressurized craft have some sort of alarm or indicator that you were flying above the prescribed limit?
“North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command had earlier launched fighter aircraft based in Texas and Louisiana to make visual contact with the single-engine plane that had failed to land in Texas after having taken off from Oklahoma City earlier in the day.”
Uhmmmm...yeah...that’s normal. Best to send fighter aircraft after those little prop things if you can’t find one....
http://abcnews.go.com/US/coast-guard-searching-plane-believed-crashed-gulf-mexico/story?id=52131431
19,000
At my link, weird story about how initially two F-16’s were sent to make visual contact. They circled the plane and only saw pilot inside. The F-16’s ran low on fuel and left. Two F-15’s were to replace them but were unable to make visual contact and returned to base..............righhttttttttttttt
The Cirrus SR22T has an oxygen system. Service ceiling is 25,000 feet.
https://cirrusaircraft.com/aircraft/sr22t/
All planes have an altimeter that shows the planes altitude. Pilots are trained to know the psychological limits associated with flight. In this case the pilot and passenger would have been using supplemental oxygen at the higher altitude. That onboard ox supply can and does fail occasionally. Pilots are supposed to be trained to recognise the onset of hypoxia. But it can be insidious. Another possible scenario involves an exhaust leak getting into the cabin. But that is not likely in this case.
Thank you for answering my question! I appreciate it!
A follow up: What is the advantage for that sort of craft to fly at the higher altitude, knowing there’s a risk of succumbing to oxygen derivation?
The temperature has been frigid (32F+/- by day and 22F+/- by night) for the past few days, but today was the first day of clear weather for about three days. It had been rainy with the temps near freezing, so I suppose if the craft were lost on Monday, it might have been trying to stay above the freezing rain to avoid icing on the wings?
I see now it was lost today. Weather clear and temps in the 40s by day. Hope they can solve this mystery!
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