I read this and I gotta hope it’s federal witness protection program. Whole family and complete destruction of the plane does that mean no bodies? “too destructive” to find bodies therefore new life for that family elsewhere? This may be a real plane accident with real victims OR it makes me wonder what it is.
Interesting thoughts. Have no input either way but I prefer the hope they are alive.
Departure with probably 150 gallons of 100LL, then crashing, would be very destructive. Only a few seconds off the runway, then possibly an engine failure,.... in fog.....
Hard to know exactly without more facts, but I used to work on small aircraft, even a C340 once in a while. Back in the 80s they had an airworthiness directive that pertained to fixing a design flaw in the firewall.
Fuel lines, fastened to the front spar, ran along inside the wing right behind the firewall. The space between wall and the spar was quite narrow. The stainless steel firewalls warp some from the heat of the engine. iirc, the small vertical stiffening angles had to be trimmed enough to allow more clearance. There was a removable panel on the firewall, but it was small, and the trimming was done with small die grinder. I remember one that had vibrated against an aluminum fuel line. It hadn’t scratched it very much, but replacement was required anyway.