The two occupants of an RV-10 died and 19 people were injured in a furniture upholstery factory when the plane went down into the roof of the building in Los Angeles on Thursday. The airplane had just taken off from Fullerton Airport in Orange County when the pilot reported an issue and asked for an immediate return to the field. It crashed a short time later. Witnesses said it was in a steep bank to the right when it crashed.
I would suspect fuel contamination firstly then any number of or issues (mechanical, electrical, medical etc.) Sad day for all. The roof looks large enough to possibly groundloop and sacrifice the plane.
Our RV6A doesn’t have a stall horn but we’ve noticed while doing stall practice that the air stops coming through the panel vents about 2 seconds or so before it stalls. Recovery is easy (at least in practice) but without power the plane certainly does not glide like the 172s and Archers that we were used to. That’s the trade-off for the 180-190 mph cruise (when we feel like burning the fuel).