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Juan Browne just released a video with prelim NTSB investigation findings. His take, possibly some sort of partial engine failure (fuel injection?) What I found interesting is apparently the landing gear was in the process of being lowered at the time of the crash. If I followed the description...

Appreciate all the feedback, and the many "it depends" replies are certainly logical. Class D, and usually with the prevailing winds the runway used is 7,000 ft long. Huge grass infield between the two runways which are 60 degrees apart. Half a mile from the end of the runway is an expressway...

As a low-time student, I spend a lot of time studying what to do- and not to do, during critical phases of flight. After reading of several recent suspected or confirmed engine-out mishaps after takeoff I'm curious as to opinions on whether most of you do a typical (not short field, no...

I sure hope so... (sorry- had to. I assume you meant airline?) Why wasn't his transponder squawking? Last flight looks like over two months ago. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N733ZN

Looks like someone, found somethin'... https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/FOXX840

K. So the other ship, our state-of-the-art, 5th gen fighter- can't track the incident aircraft BVR while the pilot keeps eyes on the chute for a short period of time? Now they're saying it could've been a zombie flight, on AP going for hundreds of miles? Under what circumstances would the pilot...

^^^ Yep. Sure appears that he over-G'd the airplane. 100 ft/sec descent abruptly arrested.

Just read about that one...wow. 260 knots over the threshold. More fun than a T-38 with a couple thousand pounds of fuel on a no-flaps.

Damn...loses both wings, fuselage drops like a rock from thousands of feet altitude and there's a survivor? Just a low-time student, but I don't see how any amount of rudder/aileron could "stabilize" a plane with one wing...

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N6059G

Juan Browne just released a video on this... IHO, sudden release of the load (possibly 1200 lbs) decreased the Va as the pilot yanked back on the yoke- and he exceeded the design limits and over G'd/ broke the plane. As a student, I had to do a bit more reading on Va, and "stalls before you...

Surprised me as well. Read a couple of accounts online and seems burner is optional for takeoff which can be done at mil power. Why they wanted to light it right after (maybe "wow" effect for the demo?) is unclear to me.

Trying to understand the ADS-B data. 115 kts to 314 kts to 91 kts in 3 seconds? How can that be correct- I can't believe the aircraft wouldn't have fallen apart at that speed.

Poor choice of words from a student... I meant maintain control long enough to get the plane to make its uncontrolled rapid descent into the lake rather than next to an apartment building. Apparently this same aircraft had an incident just a few weeks ago at Oshkosh where it shed a piece of its...

From Fox News' site... Video shows at least three pilots parachuting out of the jet fighter as it started to smoke. Nothing like accurate reporting. Couldn't help but notice the irony in the pilot/owner's interview linked above that all of them he owns (I think it said 10) are the trainers...

Little over a week before this, I was visiting my son and he told me the day I was leaving that he was going to be doing spin recovery in the T6A that morning (he's an IP for that aircraft, but this sortie was without a student and for his own proficiency). Even as I'm just getting started in a...

Well, not being a fighter pilot I lack knowledge here...so if you have it, by all means enlighten me. I assume they are dropped well ahead of the intercept aircraft as they're intended for the pilot to see and not the pax- and would be well below the aircraft before it overflew them. Probably a...

Given the F-16 pilots visually confirmed the pilot was incapacitated, why not do maneuvers to attempt to gain the attention of the pax (perhaps they did?) I know if I were a pax on an aircraft, and had F-16's off each wing close enough to see the pilots- I'd sure AF figure something was amiss...

Disclaimer...new GA student pilot that knows jack about pressurized cabin systems... I find the entire scenario puzzling. No indication from the military pilot escorts that there was visible evidence that would have caused rapid decompression (structural damage, etc) from what I've gathered. And...

Appreciate all the feedback. I fully understand it will probably require more hours than might otherwise be the case, but life "is what it is". Thus far, there hadn't been any need to re-learn anything- each flight built on the last. Something I always wanted to do; my son's an IP in the AF and...