ATC Vectors IFR Flight Into California Mountain

Nonsense. They vectored him for an instrument approach into Santa
Monica when he was just passed LAX. He never responded to later
instructions and flew another 15 minutes at 150 knots straight
into the hills to the north east. If ATC hadn't given him that
heading, he wouldn't have been able to fly the approach. Here's
a similar flight:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N...122Z/KMYF/KSMO


Larry Dighera wrote:


The Air Traffic Controller issued the flight a heading of 030 (toward the
mountains), evident in this video
http://www.cbs8.com/story/32010167/air-traffic-controllers-desperately-tired-to-save-san-diego-pilot-before-crash.

But that vector appears to have been omitted from the NTSB report.

At this point, it looks like ATC made an error to me.

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You can see where the 030 sent the flight on maps on this page:
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2016/0...san-diego.html

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Don Poitras