Interesting crash site photos that don’t seem to correlate with reports of A/C in spin, stall or aerobatic attitudes.  Looks like he pancaked in with a reasonable flat trajectory and photos don’t show evidence of significant pieces missing.  Could he have gotten in a spin or stall and just been pulling out when he impacted ground?

 

I know we shouldn’t speculate, but photos and eyewitness reports seem to have a disconnect.

 

John Barrett

 

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Guy and Jill Foreman
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Subject: [LML] Re: 3 killed in small plane crash in Southern California

 

IV-PT That crashed was N5M.
 
Guy Foreman