Don Tuite wrote:
I'm confused. Was that how they originally got to South County
Airport? (Q99)

Q99 was the departure point immediately before the crash, and the
crash scene (going by a map in the newspaper) was 2 miles away, into
rising terrain, more or less along a crosswind departure leg, assuming
a takeoff to the south. That'd be orthogonal to 101.

The accident report says the departure point was "Santa Clara," but
that's just part of Q99's full name.

Don, the info I gave above pertained to a different accident that occured in
2003; aircraft departed RHV. The most-recent accident did depart Q99 (now
E16). Sorry for the confusion, but someone asked me for more info on the
2003 Commander accident.

Hilton