Originally Posted by
ChristiaanJ
SeniorDispatcher,
Trying to read between the lines (and between the airports....), looks like a low ceiling, yes.
But wasn't there a mention of a "mayday", and a witness mentioning "aerobatics"?
Loss of control under IFR? Mechanical failure? I'm not going to start the guessing game.
But I don't envy the NTSB investigators that will have to come up with a "probable cause".
I don't envy them either...
As far as the "aerobatics" mentioned by witnesses, just like one man's ceiling is another man's floor, one witnesses non-routine non-straight-and-level flights is another witnesses "acrobatics".
I wonder how long it will be before the media mentions Munson/JFK Jr., or even the B-25 into the Empire State Building back in the 1940s?