Posted on 09/05/2022 3:04:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Karl-Peter Griesemann, a prominent German businessman, was aboard the plane with three others, a spokesperson for Quick Air, an air charter company based in Cologne, told Reuters. Local newspaper Express reported that Griesemann was the pilot and that he was with his wife, daughter and his daughter's boyfriend.
The jet "was flying between Spain and Cologne but when it changed course, air traffic controllers were not able to make contact," the Latvian civil aviation agency said...
Fighter jets from Germany, Denmark and Sweden were scrambled to try to make contact with the crew in the air as the Austrian-registered plane continued to fly across northern Europe, "but they saw no one," Swedish search and rescue operation leader Lars Antonsson told AFP.
The plane, a Cessna 551, flew over Swedish airspace in the Baltic Sea before crashing into the sea off Ventspils just before 8:00 p.m. (1800 GMT).
The plane flew relatively steadily until it neared the Latvian coast, when it rapidly lost altitude.
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Or JFK Junior’d.
There was a golf pro a few years back that met a similar fate. The jet kept going, by the time it crashed, they were basically ice cubes. Not much left. Payne Stewart,?
“Karl-Peter Griesemann, a prominent German businessman... Griesemann was the pilot and that he was with his wife, daughter and his daughter’s boyfriend.”
German elite who is a pilot flying jet back from Spain family vacation? Maybe next time he’ll be a little more carbon-friendly and take the train.
Useful conciseness at that altitude is about 30 seconds (seconds, not minutes) without oxygen. By the time anyone realized there was a problem they were already hypoxic and headed for lala land.
My first thought as well.
That was the case w/ the Payne Stewart crash if I recall correctly.
Calm conditions (47F) and 5mph wind.
Yup. My 1st thought.
Yes I noticed business jets fly higher than airliners, so the air would be very thin.
Sure does. Jets flew along side and saw no movement, then it finally ran out of gas.
Payne Stewart
That was sad, but not as sad as the pieces of the last shuttle falling down over east TX.
Apparently, PS and Co. Were dead long before they hit the ground. They were ice cubes. It was weird watching that plane.
Center fuel tank?
With Stewart, they reported that the windows frosted over indicating depressurization. No such report here.
“””The jet “was flying between Spain and Cologne but when it changed course, air traffic controllers were not able to make contact,””””
Seems to look like a suicide by private plane. If so, too bad he took others with him.
We all remember the stories from the 1929 crash when men committed suicide as their company collapsted.
This is beginning to look like a repeat.
Analysis of the flight path showed the plane making normal course corrections while at 36,000 feet until just before ATC was unable to contact them further.
The altitude and course remained in a straight line from then on indicating the autopilot was controlling the aircraft until it disengaged when the fuel ran out and it couldn’t maintain altitude.
At 36,000 feet a pilot has about 30 seconds to react to a depressurization emergency and put on the secondary mask. This is a frequent part of commercial airline training but may not have been well practiced by the private pilot. He also may not have done the full checklist before takeoff that makes sure the secondary system oxygen tank was full.
In any event it appears to be very similar to the Paine Stewart Lear Jet crash that was due to depressurization at altitude.
Hypoxia.
Wonder if climate activists radicals have upped their sabotage agenda. Private jets are a bigger target than SUVs.
This is how PGA star Payne Stewart died; his plane took off from Florida, somehow became depressurized, the people on board passed out and perished, and the plane continued on until it ran out of fuel and crashed in South Dakota.
I remember that….horrifying.
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