On Oct 2, 3:14*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
es330td writes:
That wreckage looks brutal. *It took me a while to figure out that
orange and white painted piece of metal was the trailing underside of
a wing.

What could be the cause? *He was presumably a good pilot, and from what I
understand the weather was clear. *And yet the news says it looks like the
aircraft hit the mountain head on. *Mechanical failure? *Sudden incapacitation
of the pilot? *Bad piloting (seems unlikely, with all he had survived
previously)? *Suicide?

Another mystery is why no one witnessed the crash (and resulting
fire). Mammoth Lakes is a small city - and the
surrounding area would have had many people about on a holiday
weekend.

Dave