Rest in peace to the pilot and passengers. I work at the airport and it sucks when you know/hear about a crew and or passengers losing their lives in a crash....

 

I'm a liol worried cause an old friend if mine went on to work for Tesla and piloted small planes as a hobby.

 

May they rest in peace.. i live near stanford and we lost power at like 7:02 and came on close to 7pm.. I didnt know what happened except a plane crash, found out later in the evening who it actually was. Talk about a silent day at my house was way to quiet heh.

 

Not to mention, in one of the slowest twin-engine planes (it must have been pretty old too)...How ironic for a company that manufacture's one of the fastest cars around. RIP.

It was so foggy, that even with a (double) engine failure it would have been impossible to return back to the airport, or the very least aim for the water.

 

Their CEO (who also owns another company) got his *** handed to him for flying a corporate jet several times to Washington lobbying for a loan. Sooooooo, that's most likely why they were in a Cessna (2 passengers, 1 pilot, all Tesla employees).


P.S. thread title was just a liiiiittle too soon.

 

and a cesna at that

 

I don't find that funny at all. A friend of mine works at Tesla.

 

$5 says the pilot hadn't finished his IFR yet.

when i saw this i immediately assumed it was a V-tail Doctor Killer (Beach Bonanza), was surprised it was a 310.

 

Was told the pilot had thousands of hours logged, RIP to all three.

On a side note, I have an interview with Tesla in a few hours

 

thats ****ed up.

 

Not sure what a "cesna" is but Cessna Aircraft have pretty good safety stats (last time I checked). A 172 is sometimes difficult to get into dangerous positions during training, and they even glide extremely well. Doesn't matter WHAT you are flying when you hit power lines and cannot see where you are going.

This whole thing is bad form. Not funny at all, sort of sad actually in light of other events that show how fragile life can be. If there is anyone that means anything you out there, you will understand.

 

little fix.
Even if he was Instrument rated, the aircraft isn't certified for those landing minimums (since visibility was close to nill, not to mention it would require exceptional skill to do it) By the way, I believe that unless he had an instrument rated pilot on board, it would have been illegal for him to depart without being instrument rated given the current weather.

 

you have to try to crash a 170 or a 172. the most common accident on a 170 is not having the trail wheel strait and locked on landing... which just makes you do a 180 when the tail drops.

skymasters (O-2) are a beast of a machine and are amazing to fly.

 

yup, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't have done it as with most accidents in life human error/hubris is the most likely cause

 

Ahh the "mixmaster" - such an awesome plane. A friend of my pops had one of those, a pressurized Centurion and a Cardinal. We just had 3x 172's and a 182. Never flown a taildragger before, but another friend has a pristine 180 that I have been in a few times years ago, and I got to fly a 1942 Stinson that flies out of Tillamook, OR but the pilot got it off the ground and landed it of course... Amazing experience, but like a school bus in the sky.