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PIlot was Ali Safai who owned Santa Monica Aviation. Was a CFI.

That'll buff right out.

Damn, one on the aircraft sounded like a woman.

Saw someone post something on Twitter pointing out some recent issues with Boeing aircraft. I think he posted 4 so I did a screenshot of FlightRadar showing the US and all flights broadcasting at that time. That said, Boeing needs to put airplane people back in charge rather than bean counters...

I looks as though the PAX were not wearing seat belts.

Given the description of one of the F16 pilots I am now not so sure you had rapid cabin depressurization. In the Payne Stewart intercept, the pilots could not see inside the aircraft because the windows were fogged/iced over. In this one, the intercept pilot describes the pilot as being slumped...

Also mentions just a single pilot, not a flight crew. Is that normal procedure for a Citation?

I know part of their mission is to simulate a cruise missile attack, so they can be flying very low at times.

Darwin missed an opportunity there.

Actually, he landed in the water. Fortunately the aircraft is a retractable.

I have read she had over 6,400 hours and was getting to 100 hours as FO for Yeti. Not sure what she had in type or if she worked for another airline before signing with Yeti.

I read on another board that the copilot was doing a check ride for her captain's rating. Her husband was a copilot for the same airline and died in a crash some 16 years previously.

Witnesses have stated that some passengers survived the initial impact, but could not be rescued because of the post crash fire.

Damn. Hate to see something like this.

When I was a student, my CFI taught me the same thing and to always exit to the rear of the aircraft. When I first soloed, he got out with the engine running and that still made me nervous. The guy I bought my company from had a tenant in his hangar with a T-28. He also had a Jack Russell...

Back when I flew I always told myself that there was no going back until I reached the point where I had the altitude to turn crosswind. I had a nice big road, albeit going uphill, just past the airport fence that I could land on with just a slight turn to port.

Used to be a beautiful 195 across from my hangar. Guy flared too high and totaled the aircraft.

At pattern height? Perhaps though I have watched these guys do it at daytime in jets and felt it was a bit risky. At half patter height, at night and in bad weather, well that is asking a lot of the plane and your skills.

I'd prefer to get this thread back on tract. If you want to debate on San Diego traffic somewhere else please do so. I don't now much about traffic in this town, just have spent some 61 years living here.