I’m not a pilot, but it looks like he crashed less than 10 miles from the airport. Incredibly close.
A client of mine survived a crash (at night) a few years ago. He pointed out to me that Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma are easy to find an emergency landing spot in, since its so flat and mostly clear of trees.
I wonder if Inhofe was so close to an urban area, that he lost that advantage, and did not have endless flat terrain to land in.
It’s actually not flat and treeless around Tulsa. The Arkansas River bottom is on the west and south side of town and is fairly flat terrain, but the rest of the area has a bunch of hills and a lot of timber. It appears from the pictures that the plane crashed in a heavily timbered area.