View Full Version : N610ED Citation 500 crash Oct 18 2013 Wichita
robbreid
18th Oct 2013, 17:42
N610ED ? FlightAware (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N610ED)
Aircraft reportedly crashed in Sedgwick County SE of Wichita - had just departed KICT en route to Texas.
Early reports are No Survivors - witness states the saw a wing fall off in flight, Sheriff confirms aircraft split apart before impacting the ground.
robbreid
19th Oct 2013, 00:53
Confirmed Pilot and owner only two on board, both fatal.
Aircraft was climbing thru 16,500 feet - parts of the aircraft were reportedly found 1.5 miles from main wreckage - which was completely destroyed on impact.
Other aircraft in the area were reporting heavy icing near the time of the accident.
California pastor delivered final message in Wichita, dies in plane crash in southeast Sedgwick County | Wichita Eagle (http://www.kansas.com/2013/10/18/3065996/california-pastor-pilot-killed.html)
Jason Marks
24th Nov 2013, 07:00
Hardly anything you wrote is true.
No wing "fell off" the aircraft. NTSB report says the entire plane except the left aileron were in the crash crater. The aileron was 3000 feet from the crash site.
No witness could have seen the "wing fall off in flight" because the the cloud ceiling was 1700 feet with "abundant cloud cover to 21,000 feet. Unless they were superman with x-ray vision, they didn't see anything until seconds before it crashed. It came down vertical at a high velocity (engines running it into the ground) from a high altitude.
The sheriff couldn't confirm anything. He isn't NTSB and all he knew was what he saw after the fact. So I don't get where you put so much emphasis on what the sheriff didn't see.
What ever happened, it wasn't from the plane coming apart midflight. It is more likely something happened with the pilot.
Trim Stab
24th Nov 2013, 11:59
Hmm - a pastor in his own business jet. Could only be in the USA. And maybe Nigeria..
con-pilot
24th Nov 2013, 20:37
Hmm - a pastor in his own business jet. Could only be in the USA. And maybe Nigeria..
Thank you for your insight on this tragic accident and the loss of two lives. :rolleyes:
Political motivated content noted. I'm sure that it will be very insightful to the NTSB accident team assigned to the case.