Glock talk member says the plane was owned by a female board member of the nra and her daughter and grandchild died in the crash.
John Rumpel owned the aircraft, his daughter and granddaughter were on the plane along with a nanny and the pilot. He lost another daughter at the age of 19 in the 1990’s in a scuba accident. This article identifies the family. This is very sad. People buy jets (regardless of some opinions) to fly safely with redundancy and the pilots are held to a higher level of training as well, and this has got to be the worst feeling for him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plane-c...t-family-died/
Last edited by Gabriel556; 06-05-23 at 17:02.
If it was a depressurization then everyone is screwed. Having said that, if I was on an aircraft that had a disabled pilot (as in unable to fly, not a paraplegic or something) I would make damn sure I at least tried to fly the damn thing using the radio and coaches as a guide. It would be hard not to panic but I'll be damned if I didn't give it a try......you're gonna die for sure if you do nothing and curl up in a ball. Might die anyway but at least give it a whirl and you just might make it.
Last edited by ABNAK; 06-05-23 at 17:48.
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You guys are right. Many of us who have dealt with disasters can and will do that. But I would hazard to say neither of the two adults in the back had any clue what to do and even if they were conscious would have looked at the panel with 45 switches and gauges that tell them nothing in English, and been overwhelmed with terror.
My wife rides in a Citation once in a while, and while I might have a fighting chance this isn’t a slow flying trainer plane any idiot can land in a field. She’s asked me what would happen if her pilot had a medical emergency, and I try to get her into the sim at Flight Safety to see. But it wouldn’t end good. This type of aircraft would take someone with intimate knowledge of the plane telling a non-pilot exactly what to do to get it down from FL350 onto pavement.
ATC lost contact with the Citation about 15 minutes after departure
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/us/vi...day/index.html
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