Investigators are looking into the cause of the plane crash in a remote area of Virginia on Sunday. The F-16 fighter jets that intercepted the plane could see that the pilot was slumped over and incapacitated, raising questions about a possible medical emergency. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports.
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If she was concious then she would have left some kind if message on her phone, or the nanny would have, they probably had a satellite phone on board as rich as they were so no one is checking their phones out?? Isnt there a black box on all planes as welll?? That would give insight.
No on the black box. Back when I flew charter most passengers napped during flight. If one was one their phone, it would be interesting to know if they started to get incoherent indicating hypoxia was an issue.
The shades down so soon after take off doesn’t sound right.
Why not? Back when I flew charter most passengers napped during flights.
I mean some people just like to have the shades down. lol
The question is who adopts a 40 year old and How does a plane get shot down.
That’s 2 questions and it wasn’t shot down.
still no real answers and we’re up to six people. Last report I plaid back was at 4 people and had the child at a different age. Gotta say some things people could do in the future is ride with the window shades up, keep extra people in the cockpit , put a health monitor on the pilot, program auto pilot to be more capable, and maybe use a different vehicle all together.
We’re monitoring everything. Land, sky, water. No shades will hide the secrets. No stone unturned.
I thought we were going to find out what we know, not what we don’t know.
Not until they recover wreckage and find the “black box” recorder.
@dfirth224 I doubt that plane has a Flight Data Recorder. Maybe a Cockpit Voice Recorder. But that probably won’t have anything on it too useful. The older ones only record the last 30 minutes and then loop and record over it.
Someone sounds fishy about this story
Adoption for adults and these adopted adults have children? Idk who’s the caretaker of who….
Did they shoot it down or did it run out of gas. Not one piece of fuselage
There are pictures. The woods around where it landed are torched, and the plane itself is completely slagged. It doesn’t make sense at all. I’d get it if the narrative wasn’t that the plane was out of fuel.
@Thiccolas Cage I’ve never flown a citation but in the turboprops I flew one engine running out of fuel and quitting would have caused enough roll and yaw to not only disengage the autopilot but also put the plane into a spiral or spin. As for the fire, the question is how much fuel did the remaining engine still have and were there extra tanks one had to initiate transfer from.
@Thiccolas Cage and yet the trees are all still green? No landing gears. No black box. Not even a single sheet of skin? Obviously a gallium based ATA missle shot it down. Democrats murdered high value Trump donors.
Shot down 100% and i don’t blame them, better to shot it down in a forest than crashing by itslef into a city
Could have been hypoxia, but then again the pilot could have just had a medical emergency and the passengers could have just been sleeping/ not paying attention in order to notice? Autopilot would have just followed the programmed course until the fuel ran out.
@Maxx Benzz Modern auto-pilots are all computerized. Just punch in the GPS for destination and plane will fly itself there. When the plane got to destination and pilot did not land, the auto-pilot made a u-turn and headed for home.
@dfirth224 that’s crazy. It turned around by itself? So if these things are so advanced why not be able to land itself too? It should have found the nearest airport, then land. I’m sure this technology will be here soon
@Maxx Benzz As an aviation enthusiast with knowledge of the systems implemented in the citation, all of its automatic capabilities fall on manual inputs, it will not descend automatically or land automatically without an input of manual frequencies, and the autopilot most likely had the coordinates plugged in to reach the runway, and just fly in the direction of the runway after, leading it right over DC and into that mountain.
@Maxx Benzz yes
100% hypoxia just like Payne Stewart
so many sudden deaths, guess no one can ask the question
death is usually sudden… he was older … jfc.. the simplest answer is usually the right one .. probably auto pilot … heart attack, out of fuel … crash boom bang, passengers would not know until too late .
Pilot incapacitation/fly on autopilot until out of fuel are not new. LSU lost a football coach, Bo Rein, that way in 1980. Lou, the pilot was only 47. He usually let one of the young local flight instructors, who were trying to build flight time fly with him but none were available that night.
Hope USAF didn’t win any 🏅🥇 on shooting down an enemy plane!
This is why i don’t fly private
First their own dies in a scuba accident was there $ paid out to that? And now these 2 “adopted” life insurance policies? $$$ Detectives are hot on them this time I hope
They should make the owner of the plane pay for removing the pieces taxpayers shouldn’t be stuck with the bill
What do people expect captain the never ever going to tell Americans with the truth is you wait until it runs out of fuel you wait on 13 on populated area and you give one burst to the stern of the aircraft with a 20 mm.
And then you lie to the public lie to the media
Crash or did the US f16 shot it down…. I would like to see the f16 footage of the “crash”
sonic boom is the cover-up of the air to air missile strike..just my 2 cents
It was shot down
I shot it down
Shot down?
They sound like very stupid people. Natural selection.
Private jets are killing the planet, so who is complaining here ?
I agree
sounds like a heart attack, auto pilot, ran out of fuel, passengers dont know anything is wrong until last minute .
Sus
We don’t know much, but we know enough to suspect that this was not a properly maintained aircraft. It was registered in Venezuela before being imported back into the USA this year by low budget excavation contractor and farm hauling company based in Ignacio Colorado. The Rumpels have only owned the plane for about three months.
How the heck u find all that out ?
@here4agoodtime tail #, can check the entire history of any aircraft with that
@here4agoodtime PlaneFax!!!
Seroously, GA often experiences mechanical issues.
Statistically speaking, based on no prior knowledge of the individual, it was probably cardiovascular disease
Anyone want to adopt me? I clean up pretty well.
I honestly think the military shot them down. Where is the footage of the plane going down?
If there is a rich family looking to adopt a 41 year old Mexican I’m available
lol get in line 🤣
They willl try to make you die
You can cut my lawn.
Other articles say is was not shot down, it was definitely shot down
I don’t like conspiracy theories, but how did the other heirs feel about this 40 year old woman being adopted by their millionaire parents?
It seems this is no longer an issue, now is it?
Could have had a young private pilot in the right seat for a couple hundred bucks, rich guys are almost always cheap 😮
life insurance 👀
the passengers would have taken control if they were conscious
They would have at least entered the cockpit. Private jets don’t have the secured locked door like airliners do. But then again they were in the back talking and taking care of the kid. If the plane was straight and level maybe they had no idea. The window shades were up so they may have not noticed the jet. How long was the flight supposed to take?
Single Pilot ops is a recipe for disaster
F genociders
Was the plane loaded with napalm? How does it crash and incinerate itself and the woods around it? I thought they ran out of fuel?
empty fuel tanks are still full of fumes, which are even more explosive than full ones.
Was it shot down, if it ran out of fuel there shouldn’t be any fire.
why do they say its sudden loss of pressure? does no one remember the Helios Flight?
Should have had a co pilot
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How about no?
probably a heart attack or something the passengers didn’t notice. bet he’d pull the curtain with that crowd.
Falls Church folks be like
Life insurance policies anybody?
Helios 522 all over again
Personally I always say there should be a co pilot. Even tho I have my license I always find a second pilot to fly with me
I agree 100%I was going to type the exact same thing.
Scary
Wait what??? Adopted her when she was 40?
R.I.P.
Please adopt me if you own a private jet, Im only 33
What I learned from Heavy D soarks, after a hill side plane recovery. Families have to pay for the recovery or sits forever with possible fines.
Adopted a woman at age 40… this story will go sideways, quickly, or will get shut down even quicker.
Might be time to reopen the case on their dead biological daughter.
I was thinking the same thing who wants to adopt me shid
Nanny? Must be rich.
I hope to God they were all just unconscious for all this. Prayers for those lost
Lol the family killed her
I think Hypoxia
Just a reminder that general aviation is too dangerous to be worth it. Them rich people be raining down from the skies 😂
Because he was dead
Another episode of Air Disasters. #smithsonian channel.
I don’t know if there’s an investigator I’d trust more than Cox. See that dude absolutely everywhere when it comes to aviation accidents.
Sadly moments rest in peace ✌️ to all. Prayers for Family ❤. Praying 🙏 to all Family
This is really fishy.
Cries out highly suspect
Adopted at 40 years old???
Pretty strange.
I really do wonder if they were “assisted” in coming down… RIP to the beautiful souls lost
Obviously. No parts at the crash site. No fire.. trees are still green. It took them 24 hours to make a crash site. Now suddenly “investigators” are saying they can’t find a flight recorder. It’s an indestructible steel box they could find on 9/11 but not on this jet? Clearly this was a murder of Republicans who fund Trump and democrats did it. It’s always a democrat behind mass murders.
@John Luna Dems are eliminating the STRENGTH of the Republican party.
I wonder if that kind of plane was one of the ones that had an annoying warning indicator that would go off when there was no issue, and it was disabled by the pilot before they took off. Because if it was an explosive decompression, there is no mistaking what is happening in that instance! I think there’s also a button on some planes where you can disable the automatic cabin pressurization. Perhaps it was disabled during maintenance and they forgot to cut it back on! So many possibilities!!🧐🧐
That’s true to..but than who ever did the last maintenance..might be in trouble..
It’s got Payne Stewart vibes
adopted daughter probably found some dirt on mom and blackmailed them, captain has a heart attack while flying, insurance on jet paid out.
The craziest part of this is them adopting her at 40 and now she’s living her best life with a nanny and private jets… I’m 33 and have never had any real parents I wish someone would adopt me!😅😕
🙂
She isn’t living her best live now bc she isn’t living 😔
@Olivia Embrey I would rather die quickly in a private jet with my nanny than to live a life of poverty and die alone in a cardboard box 🤷🏻♂️
I’m 43, any rich people want to adopt me? I’ll call you mommy and daddy.
I have no idea what happened on that rich persons jet.
It was carrying evidence on the Biden crime syndicate and they shot it down 😂
The owner was a huge Republican donor and a Spokesperson for the NRA, in the higher upper level.
@dundeeecroc not that far fetched these days i suppose
Did the pilot receive the COVID-19 vaccinations along with the boosters?
Did it ever get ABOVE 14,000 feet???
went up to 32k ft
as an adopted person, this adoption is weird
As a weird person don’t bring us into this, this is strange
Really odd. They adopted her when she was 40 yrs old? Something sounds fishy
Hope they’re not trying to cover up something.
SO SAD
We know that everything that goes up will come down.
Something is off about this….
The military shot the plane down because they were trump supporters
It can be failure to distribute oxygen into both cockpit and cabin 😢😢
They adopted a 40 year old ?? Wow
Beware of old pilots.
I did not know you can be adopted at 40. Is there a rich couple that wants to adopt a 60 yr old man…I’m well behave, very loyal.
“What we know about the Virginia private plane crash.” This article indicates you don’t know anything.
Normally, the windows will fog in this scases.
💉💉
Should be titled, ‘we still know nothing.’
I don’t know why this new news seems suspicious. Initial news says the plane turned around after reaching its destination. Can someone explain?
Yes if any millionaire would like to adopt me, please let me know. I am alone and gave no family❤
So they shot it down bc the pilot was passed out over the forest?
Why is this a story?
Another vaxed pilot dies in flight. This was not a pressurization problem.