A 1961 Piper Comanche (N7690P) crashed today on an IFR flight between Whiteman Airport (KWHP) and Brown Field (KSDM).
Lucas… that looks very impressive (if I could figure it out?) Are there any altitude/airspeed data points available to coincide with the lateral position points?
Very coool… if it indeed it’s accurate! Well done.
The red line connects the position points which are at the same altitude the plane was at. It is intended to show the approximate flight path of the plane using radar data from FBO web. Does that make sense?
Time: Speed: Altitude: Lat: Lon:
5:49:08 PM 160 7,100 33.0500 -117.0833
5:50:09 PM 155 6,500 33.0000 -117.0667
5:51:09 PM 151 5,900 32.9667 -117.0500
5:52:10 PM 154 5,100 32.9333 -117.0500
5:53:11 PM 156 4,200 32.8833 -117.0333
5:54:11 PM 33 0,000 32.8833 -117.0500
From News of the Force
Two people were killed yesterday after a small plane crashed and burned on Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, near San Diego, Calif., authorities said.
The pilot and his passenger were on board the private Piper Commanche, which was heading from Whiteman Airport in the San Fernando Valley community of Pacoima to Brown Field in San Diego when it went down shortly before 11 a.m., PDT, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Ian Gregor said. The crash caused a small fire in a hilly area but it was quickly contained.
The victims’ identities were being withheld pending notification of their relatives, James Buckley, an investigator with the Medical Examiner’s Office, said.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating the cause of the crash.
No other aircraft were involved and the pilot did not issue a distress call before the crash, Gregor said. The weather was cloudy around the time of the crash.