Piper Meridian crashes after takeoff from HPN

[mguerreiro]

Sad story, the pilot was killed. Richard Rockefeller MD, a great guy and well known philanthropist. Had flown down from Maine to have dinner with his father on his 99th birthday.

Rockefeller-owned plane in fatal crash near Westchester County Airport

[surplus1]

I wonder if the pilot was instrument rated?

[MarkerInbound]

You can pull up the certificates of any pilot in the US on the FAA web site. Yes, he was.

[flyboyike]

I have a little bit of time in a Meridian, nice airplane. Wonder what happened.

[worldpilot]

Apparently, weather was a major contributing factor in this tragic accident.

Being instrument rated, low ceiling and visibility shouldn't have prevented the pilot from executing full control of the flight envelope.

RIP

WP.