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Small plane crash at Nashville Int .. Goes unnoticed for hours

  • 30-10-2013 10:36am
    #1
    weisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,732 ✭✭✭


    Authorities struggled to explain how a small plane crashed at an international airport, erupted in fire, but evidently went unnoticed for hours.
    The incident occurred early Tuesday in Nashville.
    But exactly what time remains a mystery.
    The single-engine Cessna registered to the Windsor Flying Club in Ontario, Canada, evidently crashed sometime after 3 a.m. local time, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
    But it wasn't noticed until well after sunrise when another plane taxiing for take-off saw an engine cover on the edge of runway 2C -- the middle of three parallel runways.
    Controllers contacted airport personnel, who found the fire-scarred wreckage. The plane's sole occupant was dead, officials said.
    The airport's control tower is staffed 24 hours a day, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN. But it was not immediately clear how many controllers were in the tower during the overnight shift.
    An FAA spokesman said there was low visibility overnight and fog.
    Another FAA spokesman said it was not known whether the plane had been in contact with controllers, or if it had made a distress call.
    The agency declined to answer questions, saying the matter was under investigation.
    Airport spokeswoman Shannon Sumrall referred all questions to the NTSB.
    The board spokesman, Peter Knudson, said the aircraft suffered a post-crash fire and the cause of the crash is under investigation.
    The name of the victim was not released.]

    http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/29/us/plane-crash-mystery/


    What was ATC doing ??


Comments

  • #2
    mickdw
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    Sleeping


  • #3
    Dogwatch
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    From above.......An FAA spokesman said there was low visibility overnight and fog.

    Maybe they just didn't see it!!!!!!


  • #4
    FWVT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 922 ✭✭✭FWVT


    Visibility was down to 1/4 mile in fog. Here are the metars for that morning 08:53Z=02:53 local.

    http://www.ogimet.com/display_metars2.php?lang=en&lugar=kbna&tipo=ALL&ord=REV&nil=SI&fmt=html&ano=2013&mes=10&day=29&hora=06&anof=2013&mesf=10&dayf=29&horaf=15&minf=59&send=send

    Runway still closed

    KBNA-A1531/13 A) KBNA NASHVILLE B) 2013 OCT 29 16:02 C) 2013 OCT 30 20:00 E) RWY 2C/20C CLSD


  • #5
    notharrypotter
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    http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20131029X13001&key=1
    NTSB initial report out.
    The flight originated at Windsor Airport (CYQG), Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and a visual flight rules flight plan was filed which listed the destination airport as Pelee Island Airport (CYPT), Pelee, Ontario, Canada.
    Transportation Canada reported the pilot closed his flight plan about 2030
    The pilot did not file any additional flight plans
    a preliminary review of air traffic control information provided by the Federal Aviation Administration revealed no communication between air traffic control and the pilot.
    So the pilot closed his flight plan and sailed off into the sunset.
    What was ATC doing ??
    No flight plan so they were not expecting him.
    from the above quote it seems that he deliberatly never called anyone.
    Probably turned off his transponder so they could not see him.


  • #6
    mackjark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭mackjark


    He made it a long way into the USA without detection. The back story to this has to be very interesting.


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  • #7
    donkey balls
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    A Cessna flying from Ontario to Tennessee surely it would have made a few stops along the way for fuel,Unless it had auxiliary tanks.


  • #8
    Cessna_Pilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Cessna_Pilot


    http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/11/05/motives-of-dead-windsor-pilot-remain-mystery/

    Some interesting revelations about the deceased in the above link.


  • #9
    mackjark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭mackjark


    Thought there might be an interesting back story. I think the toxicology report will be revealing. I don't know why but it reminds of a story that happened in Scotland many years ago. A pilot had been drinking all night, later made his way to the airport and took off in his Cessna 150 in the dark. After a few circuits the Cessna vanished, never to be seen again. But not quite the pilot, his body was later found on a nearby hill with injuries but he had in fact had died of exposure. No sign of the plane.

    The conclusion was that either he'd fallen out of a badly secured door in his drunken state or jumped. Either way he survived the fall and died on the hill. The Cessna simply carried on out to sea until it ran out of fuel.

    No one really knows what happened and I think it'll be the same with this recent story.


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