Posted on 02/03/2019 3:00:55 PM PST by Pelham
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https://abc7.com/yorba-linda-houses-erupt-in-flames-after-small-plane-crashes/5119211/
They’re saying there are “injuries on the ground.” I assume that means of persons not aboard the aircraft.
It’s a fairly substantial airplane, a Cessna 414A. Twin engine, 300 hp each, pressurized, go for around $300K+ used. Empty weight around 4400 lbs.
Yeah, if a 414 took off from Fullerton and crashed in Yorba Linda, he never made it much past pattern altitude.
Might have left Corona, as well. May have had trouble in gaining altitude early on. Lots of small planes key off the 91 freeway on approaching or leaving that field.
Location seems to be the home at 19941 Crestknoll Drive. Aircraft landed on rear roof of the home, coming on a path from west to east. Large hole in roof of home, much fire damage. If anyone was in that upstairs room, they could have been very badly injured.
Two deceased, two hospitalized.
Why is it that pilots are always the first ones to arrive at the scence of a plane wreck?
Propellor, other debris landed in driveway and front of house 250 feet west of impact house. Aircraft must have been disintegrating in the air, looks like prop and other engine parts hit separated. Pretty severe damage to front of house, no fire though.
One wing was off and in the street. Guy was putting out fire on it with garden hose.
One house burned, took off from Fullerton.
Beautiful plane.
I’m about 3 miles from the crash site. My neighbor was in her house when she heard an odd sound and thought “That sounds like an airplane”.
She walked down the hill and spotted the big smoke plume. About then all sorts of sirens started up. That caught my attention and I figured it was a wreck on the 91. My neighbor came wandering back and told me that she was sure it was an airplane crash, and she came real close to guessing what street it was on.
If a prop came off a piston engine under power, it would have made a distinctive sound, sort of like a zipper being pulled.
The engine that that prop came off of was not making power when it struck.
I am not expert, but accident scenes aren't what they seem sometimes. Intact airplanes (seemingly) w/ high impact speed and angle ( > 61 mph ) and their are no survivors. That 3 blade prop w/ one blade bent could have been at full throttle, 1 blade hit and the whole assembly liberated from the crank. Whatever it was, he didn't have power, out of options, and the last he wanted to do was hit a house. He'd have put in down on a street if he could have. Maybe one engine out, for whatever reason and or stall getting below VMC. Very sad, prayers for all those now dealing with loss and grief.
I’ll have to ask my neighbor to describe it again.. she said that she heard a plane making some kind of odd sound that caught her attention, and then she actually heard the crash. That’s when she headed outside to go look for it.
I was maybe 50 feet away from her house and didn’t hear a thing until all of the sirens started up. But when you looked north you could see the big black smoke plume.
A picture up on “avweb” shows an almost intact fuselage in a back yard.
There’s a golf course about 2,000 feet from the crash site, running south to north. But if he was eastbound coming out of Fullerton he had just passed it. Maybe he stalled while trying to turn back towards it.
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