My home airport had a crash this morning

I was thinking hard attack on final with auto-pilot still engaged.
They said clear to land and the pilot replied and then massive coronary.
People in the back never knew what happened.
"Peter R." wrote in message
...
wrote:

Could it be possible that they had the whole flight programmed into the
FMS and then had
a Pane Stewart type problem and the plane finished the flight?

In this case, wouldn't there have been reports of the aircraft being NORDO
for the last half of the flight?

--
Peter

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:46:26 -0800, "Aluckyguess"
wrote in ::

I was thinking hard [sic] attack on final with auto-pilot still engaged.
They said clear to land and the pilot replied and then massive coronary.

That would have had to occur within the temporal window of opportunity
bounded by the time the gear was extended and the time of impact, a
period of probably a couple of minutes at the speed the aircraft was
alleged to have been traveling. (What's the old saw about preferring
luck to skill?)

The other questionable issue in this hypothesis, is the necessity for
BOTH pilots to have been stricken simultaneously.

Larry Dighera wrote:

That would have had to occur within the temporal window of opportunity
bounded by the time the gear was extended and the time of impact, ...

According to several posts in this thread, the gear was never extended.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

According to a local newspaper the gear was extended.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006...1_02_281_26_06
..txt



George Patterson wrote:
Larry Dighera wrote:

That would have had to occur within the temporal window of opportunity
bounded by the time the gear was extended and the time of impact, ...

According to several posts in this thread, the gear was never extended.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong
to your slightly older self.

--
Mike Flyin'8
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
http://flying.4alexanders.com

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:59:32 GMT, George Patterson
wrote in ErrCf.1962$oo1.1321@trnddc02::

According to several posts in this thread, the gear was never extended.

Later news articles reported:


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...m26cessna.html
Investigators did determine that the jet's landing gear was down
after the crash, and that its "thrust reversers," used to slow the
jet, were stowed.

Larry wrote:
That would have had to occur within the temporal window of opportunity
bounded by the time the gear was extended and the time of impact

gear's up...

The Monk

Larry wrote:
That would have had to occur within the temporal window of opportunity
bounded by the time the gear was extended and the time of impact

gear's up...

The Monk