Re: VA plane crash
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2023 6:39 am
yes, that is what I am reading.electro-wiz wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:10 am I think the most likely scenario is some sort of depressurization event that incapacitated all occupants. It seems the passengers likely had some knowledge of private flying, and would probably have been capable in that amount of time to figure out how to use the radios.
As far as why it turned around? Hard for me to say, avionics vary a lot on how they function. I have no experience with the avionics that would have been in this jet...but the theory that has been presented that it simply flew to the last point in the flight plan, and then went into heading mode seems plausible.
it dropped so fast. could that have been a deliberate crash/nosedive? it’s unnerving.electro-wiz wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:34 am I'm not sure if the flight plan shown on flightaware is the actual filed route or not. But if that is what they had in their GPS, then they basically continued their last heading after it reached the end of the flight plan. I think it is simply a coincidence that heading happened to take them back to the airport of departure.
There was an Air Force base near where i grew up.
Unlikely. Someone that is intending to crash a plane would be unlikely to fly this flight path, ignore the interception, and then put the aircraft into a spiraling dive.temporal1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 11:54 amit dropped so fast. could that have been a deliberate crash/nosedive? it’s unnerving.electro-wiz wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:34 am I'm not sure if the flight plan shown on flightaware is the actual filed route or not. But if that is what they had in their GPS, then they basically continued their last heading after it reached the end of the flight plan. I think it is simply a coincidence that heading happened to take them back to the airport of departure.
thanks.electro-wiz wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 12:03 pmUnlikely. Someone that is intending to crash a plane would be unlikely to fly this flight path, ignore the interception, and then put the aircraft into a spiraling dive.temporal1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 11:54 amit dropped so fast. could that have been a deliberate crash/nosedive? it’s unnerving.electro-wiz wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:34 am I'm not sure if the flight plan shown on flightaware is the actual filed route or not. But if that is what they had in their GPS, then they basically continued their last heading after it reached the end of the flight plan. I think it is simply a coincidence that heading happened to take them back to the airport of departure.
More likely that it eventually ran out of fuel. Based on reserves it makes sense that they would have had about that amount of extra fuel. Once it ran out of fuel the auto pilot disengaged.