It’s happened before, but is still suspicious these days, especially with the democrats propensity to be involved in so many *accidents*, *suicides*, and *disappearances*.
That is one egregious headline..................
Payne Stewart redux
Pro Golfer, Stuart Payne died in a similar scenario. He was in a Learjet.
Certainly some kind of medical emergency. Loss of cabin pressure is what happened to Paine Stewart some years ago.
That’s how champion pro golfer, Payne Stewart, died. The private plane he was in lost cabin pressure and flew on its own almost all the way across the US from Florida in a northwesterly direction until it ran out of fuel and crashed. All aboard perished. US fighter planes escorted it all the way but, of course, could do nothing to prevent the crash.
what a crap headline...this appears to be the same issue that killed the people in the Payne Stewart plane...
Nothing definitive yet but it’s thought the jet lost cabin pressure before anyone could don an oxygen mask so everyone went to sleep, including the pilot.
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the flight of payne stewart
I’ve been hoping this would happen to all the Davos group’s jets next time they fly into one of their mass-murder plotting meetings.
Reminds me of an old OLD Steve Canyon TV show “Operation Intercept” Episode aired Mar 31, 1959” where he has to shoot down an American Plane headed for the USSR.
If this is the one I recall from decades ago, some target shooters accidentally shot holes in the aircraft causing those aboard to die in flight.
DANG what a Memory I have at 76!
That’s what I’m thinking.
A Citation is a big enough jet to (typically) require two pilots.
Something would have to take out both.
Or perhaps they both had the fish.
So basically, the headline admonishes those who may feel some empathy for this family because they were “TRUMP donors, “don’t feel bad, they deserved it”
dont these jets have alarms that go off when they lose cabin pressure
so people know to put on the oxygen mask?
OK, that confirms that they shot it down.
How did the plane make a perfect U turn over NY to fly over DC?
The same thing happened to a prominent golfer 5 years ago.
We should all say a prayer for this man and his family.
That could certainly be it
But doesn’t that mean it happened AFTER the pilot made a 180 turn to land at NY air port?
Have not seen any reports if talk between pilot and ATC at air port.
I’ve wondered why automated descent isn’t part of auto pilot in such situations.
Cesna Citations (I,II) are dubbed the "Fischer-Price Jet" of biz jets. Not much of a useful load. Underpowered relative to its competitors. It's very common to scud-run them when not going a great distance, especially so around the DC Flyway corridor. It's very common to fly them at VFR altitudes and Low Level Enroute routes IFR. I rarely flew above 12,000 feet unless we were traveling more than 250 miles. That can build bad habits in cockpit management. If you have six passengers and baggage you don't have a great deal of fuel load, which means frequent stops. In a trip from Charlotte to Seattle, we had to stop twice for fuel. The plane spends a fair amount of time and distance at low unpressurized altitudes versus a Falcon, Lear, Hawker, etc....