PA-31 mapping plane down in Victoria, TX

There’s a few different video’s out there showing the actual landing attempt.

(Couldn't find a good source to use to post the vid’s here - all were in pilot groups on Facebook…)
 
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I'm curious about that one. 5 hour leg, 15,000 above a wide variety of airports on the mapping run.
100 miles (average) back to VCT. Did they depart as planned and it went wrong on that last part of flight?
Or something was amiss during mapping and they had maintenance back at VCT and the altitude gave them some foolish confidence?

fuel starvation? The plane has done longer legs. But did the pilot "Know" how much fuel, or just cap check and had told them "top it off"
That road is only 1-2 miles from runway.
 

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Experiment time…


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Why was someone standing on the service road in the first place?
 
found Live ATC San Antonio 12-11-24 2030-2100Z
he has minor interaction first couple minutes, then says direct VCT around 4 minutes,
garbled handoff. Nothing eventful.
Not sure if there are better ways to search LiveATC but I took a listen to a few choices found nothing more.
 
I don't know much about Navajos, but I recall it being a fairly complicated twin engine flying contraption. So I guess my question is what it fuel starvation or fuel exhaustion?
 
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