Originally Posted by
EDLB
Important for the other Vintage birds will be the reason for this accident. Fortunately the fuselage did not burn down complete, so there will hopefully be video coverage from inside left. Most times those mountain crashes are in IMC or night conditions but this one was in VMC and the bird could have done a emergency landing on the slope with minor damage if there where no additional holes in the cheese.
Agreed - Obviously too early to have all the facts but this one is a bit baffling: the terrain they end up on was indeed favourable to an emergency landing, and with this type of aircraft it would be quite feasible. Conditions were perfect and there is no indication of major failure,
There will be a press conference this afternoon with hopefully more information but the death tool seem to be 20.
Very sad.