Con-pilot: any first hand info on the weather this morning?
Clear with unlimited visibility, light winds and cold. No factor really, least not that I can see.
It is now being reported on the local news stations that there was a fire in the cabin before the crash. Take that as you may, as I have read and been on accident sites where the aircraft was reported on fire before the accident, but when on scene, there was no sign of a post accident fire, let alone one airborne. So I don't put a lot of faith in these types of reports.
The accident site is approximately 2.5 miles north from Wiley Post Airport (KPWA). The airport is controlled, but at that time in the morning, the tower is closed. So whatever happend, it happend fast for them not to it make to Wiley Post, just two and a half miles away.