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Old 27th Feb 2023, 19:41
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Originally Posted by 3FG
NTSB says the plane broke up in flight:
https://www.kolotv.com/2023/02/25/ca...s-lyon-county/

The path shown in post #7 shows a spiral descent of approximate diameter 1/2 mile. The distance between Seneca and Seminole roads is 1/2 mile according to my guestimate from Google Maps
The in flight break up was likely to have occurred in this event, the question is if a failure precipitated the dive or not, and I suspect that the relatively close proximity of the liberated components indicate they failed in the descent rather than at the start of the event. The odd wiggle off route, recovery to track and then odd flightpath in vertical and horizontal components are suggesting either vertigo or a medical event to the pilot. Causation may come out quickly, but would suspect it will take time. The outer wing failure will be a point of concern to determine if the failure was in overload or from pre existing cracking.

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