Cameron Park is my home airport. I own and fly a Beech Travel Air
B95. My work office is located a few hundred feet off the end of 31.
I was in my office at the time of the crash but did not see it. Here
are some of my observations fom watching the video, I used a satellite
image of the airport via Google Earth which has a handy distance
measuring tool which I used to determin key distances along the
takeoff profile. First, 31 has a displaced threshold that is
approximatly 1500 feet from the begining of the runway. The video
starts showing the plane already moving at pretty good speed crossing
over this threshold. The camera appears to be located near the fuel
island slightly less than midfield at about 1900 feet down the
runway. The plane crosses this point and seems to be picking up speed
at a good rate. The engine also sounds strong. By freezing the video
at this point it appears that all 3 passengers and pilot are sitting
in the four seets furthest toward the front of the aircraft. (I
obviously can't tell this for sure). I slowly forwarded the video
from this point on and counted five white stripes from the point of
takeoff to the end of the runway. Using the google satellite image,
this measures out to a lift off point of about 3000 feet down the
runway or about 1000 feet from the end of the runway. The distance
from the end of the runway to the crash site is about 900 feet. Also,
I can confirm the conditions at the time of the crash. The
temperature was just above 100, and the winds were light (5 or less).
I do not know the direction of the wind. My calculations show a DA of
about 4200 feet which seems to fall in line with other's
calculations. I do recall hearing several other aircraft depart using
31 within a half hour time frame before the accident.