Plane down. New Smyrna, FL

Oxman

Oxman

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Just on the tv news.
New Smyrna Beach, Fl. Single engine Cessna in heavy fog crashed on the beach. There was one fatality, the female pilot.
RIP.
 
RIP but I've gotta say this was totally avoidable. Its foggy A LOT in the mornings here. Reading a TAF would have provided warning. Then not following instructions to climb.... it all leaves me shaking my head with disgust.
 
Sounds like a Chinese girl without much English proficiency on top of all the other stress factors. I'm speculating she was not IFR rated and was getting disoriented, and not understanding the controller was distracting and all of it was too much too handle. Sad.
 
Sad indeed. I think sub-par English was the least of her worries at that point although it certainly didn't help. English doesn't keep the wings level and space between you and the ground.
 
She was way out of her element. Sad, but this happens to some extent very frequently.

And what's an emergency on 121.5 without the guard police letting everyone know they're keeping the freq clean too?
 
One of the news articles states that she was close to 500 hours and IFR rated... It just doesn't make any sense for that kind of experience, particularly the audio. She sounded like a student pilot! Very strange.
 
GypsyPilot said:
One of the news articles states that she was close to 500 hours and IFR rated... It just doesn't make any sense for that kind of experience, particularly the audio. She sounded like a student pilot! Very strange.
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The 152 was owned by a time building school in edewater. I know many foreign pilots come to FL to get current after sitting at home not flying for a year.
 
launchpad said:
It's amazing what skills go out the window when someone's in a panic. It can happen to anyone...
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I understand, but a 500 hour pilot? Most are going to sound different than a student pilot. I don't agree this could happen to "Anyone" either. It sure as heck would not have happened to me at 500 hours...
 
NEW SMYRNA BEACH --
A woman was killed Tuesday night after a plane crashed into the water off New Smyrna Beach near the Flagler Avenue approach.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said the single-engine Cessna 152 crashed about 20 feet offshore into the ocean surf.

The Sheriff's Office says the woman, whose name has not been released, was the only person on board. Her body was recovered from the ocean. The Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office is conducting an autopsy.

Witnesses say there was rain, fog and wind at the time of the crash.

"We were just standing, getting ready to leave to go pick up a friend and I heard what I thought was a propeller, a backfire of what I thought was a car, and then a big loud boom," said witness Joseph Richenberg.

Deputies said they believe the took off from the Massey Ranch Airpark in Edgewater.

The Sheriff's Office says right before the crash, the Daytona Beach tower got a final radar hit from the plane as it was about a quarter-mile offshore and turning back towards the beach.

Investigators said the pilot contacted the tower and told them she was having difficulty navigating through the weather and was trying to find the nearest airport to land the plane.

The plane is owned by Flight Time Building in Edgewater. An employee at the aircraft instructional company says the female victim had just signed on with the company and wasn't permitted to fly the plane by herself.

According to the company, the victim was a commercial-rated pilot, but was still looking to build up time in the air.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are both investigating the crash.
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Very interesting audio. You can clearly hear the panic in her voice and I tend to agree, whether panic or otherwise it does not sound like a 500hr pilot. She was also incredibly difficult to hear. Very sad situation.
 
one question (based on teh article above) if she wasnt checked out in the aircraft, how did she get the plane and who let her take it out...? Did she 'steal' the plane? At every FBO I have been to, you had to get the 'tin' from the dispatcher. You couldn't jsut go take a plane.......
 
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