C525 missing over Lake Erie

[RDoug]

Coast Guard: No debris found in search for missing plane

 

[Stone Cold]

That was always an absolute black hole departure off of Lakefront airport at night over the water. RIP.

 

[Tyler Pinkerton]

N614SB, a CJ4. Registered to Maverick Air and operated on behalf of Superior Beverage group. They were departing after attending the Cavalier's game.

-3,750fpm registered on the last data set from flightaware at an altitude of 3,100ft.

 

[Inverted]

Flown single pilot?

 

[Low&Slow]

Lake Erie Triangle?

 

[Inverted25]

It was being flown single pilot by its owner. Superior CEO was flying it

 

[Oxman]

BKL is my aviation home. Last night at 11 pm when I went took the dog out it was freezing rain and I thought to myself thank God I'm not flying in this. The ice was sticking to my mailbox. Then I wake up to this story.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/30/us/plane-missing-lake-erie/

CNN)A small plane believed to have crashed in Lake Erie is registered to a beverage company executive and is based at Ohio State University Airport, the airport's director told CNN Friday.

The executive's father, John W. Fleming, told the Columbus Dispatch that his son, John T. Fleming, was at the controls of the Cessna that went missing Thursday night after the pilot, his family and friends attended a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game.
"The airplane is based at our airport, it left from the airport and it did not come home last night," said Doug Hammon, the airport's director.

 

[dustoff17]

When I saw this thread (C525 Missing....), I was interested in how old the plane was.
Now...WOW, it's a C525C! This is going to be interesting.....


RIP

 

[Itchy]

When I saw this thread (C525 Missing....), I was interested in how old the plane was.
Now...WOW, it's a C525C! This is going to be interesting.....


RIP

If it was +FZ ra, it will be a short story.

 

[Boris Badenov]

There's a reason people get paid to fly jets.

 

[obx]

When I saw this thread (C525 Missing....), I was interested in how old the plane was.
Now...WOW, it's a C525C! This is going to be interesting.....


RIP

Why do you say that? Is it notoriously bad in icing? Granted anything would be bad in +FZRA. I'm asking because I'm ignorant about most biz jets--this one in particular. Does it have boots?

 

[Pilot Fighter]

There's a reason people get paid to fly jets.

...and decide when not to fly them.

 

[Inverted]

There's a reason people get paid to fly jets.

It goes beyond that. I know plenty of people that get paid to fly that would have taken off too.

 

[bucksmith]

There's a reason people get paid to fly jets.

Wait, I'm supposed to get paid?

 

[bucksmith]

It goes beyond that. I know plenty of people that get paid to fly that would have taken off too.

Did anybody look up the weather yet? Was it in fact +FZRA?

 

[vheissu]

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20161229-0

Weather near the bottom of that link. Looks like -SN around the time of takeoff.

 

[Inverted25]

I hate to speculate. I wonder if he blew through his altitude and was trying to get back and lost control. The normal clearance out of there is 350 heading and 2000 on takeoff.

 

[Itchy]

I hate to speculate. I wonder if he blew through his altitude and was trying to get back and lost control. The normal clearance out of there is 350 heading and 2000 on takeoff.

Normally, someone would program that in before takeoff though. At the very least set the capture.

 

[Tyler Pinkerton]

The Pilot received his Private Pilot's license January of 2015 and since completed his IR, ME and even rotorcraft since then. Last Third class medical was October, 2015.

I read on another site that the plane was listed for sale through late summer early fall and was registered in October. So it sounds like he was rather knew to the plane.

 

[Deleted member 27505]

There's a reason people get paid to fly jets.

I just barely do. Does that count?