Originally Posted by
wrench1
A number of private owners use flight-tracking software like Spider Tracks or Garmin InReach. Some pay to have it monitored . Or some monitor it themselves. A very tragic event.
Thanks, that probably explains a couple of early news reports that the pilot made a call to 911 to report problems before the crash. Sounds hokey but it was probably the call from the tracking center to the police emergency line that generated the 911 report.
Also a news report listed the emergency call to Uvalde Police around midnight but said the crash was at 1:57 am. Usual confusion with breaking news I suppose. Some millennial wedding receptions I've been to in recent years are over by 10 pm but others turn up the volume at 11 pm to chase out the old folks and party well into the wee hours of the morning.
It appears that the family didn't know that their aircraft had crashed until in the morning when nobody called.