Originally published at: Texas Pilot Killed in Louisiana
Single-engine aircraft went down in a heavily wooded area southeast of the Ruston Regional Airport in a second fatal crash in Louisiana yesterday.
We’ll probably never know why the pilot didn’t use the BRS with an engine issue. I’ll be interested to see pilot qualifications and whether he was VFR or IFR.
Given the wildly varying altitude, heading and the weather, I can’t help but wonder if this was a loss of control in IMC. Altitude as low as 1450 to around 2400 right before the last ADS-B hit, heading all over the pace… I’m betting loss of control in IMC and just never pulled the handle or the aircraft was in a state that precluded a successful chute deployment before impact. Might’ve been trying to find the airport as where those turns were there was a large clearing that looks like it’d bee logged, then replanted.
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