“Everything is on the table until we slowly and methodically remove different components and elements that will be relevant for this safety investigation,” an NTSB investigator said after the crash that killed four people.
John M. Cox, a former US Airways captain and an NBC News contributor, said the pilot, Jeff Hefner, “stopped talking with the tower about 15 minutes after takeoff, at which point the plane was at about 30,000 feet and still climbing. “
“If this was case of decompression, you would have started losing cognitive ability within a short time,” Cox said. “You think you’re OK, but as the hypoxia sets in, even simple tasks, like adding numbers, become difficult or impossible. But assuming they were at 30,000 and climbing, they would have had about one to two minutes of useful consciousness before passing out.”"They were cleared to fly a specific route to Islip airport and they did," Cox said.
The plane, which at first was headed northeast toward Long Island, New York, changed course near New York City and began flying south when fighter jets from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, were sent to investigate, causing a sonic boom as they flew over Washington.For the final two hours of the flight, the pilot was silent and not responding to air traffic controllers, the government official said.
John Rumpel, whose corporation, Encore Motors of Melbourne, Florida, is the registered owner of the aircraft, identified three of the victims: Adina Azarian, 49; her daughter, Aria, 2; and pilot Hefner. Rumpel did not divulge the name of the fourth person, who he said worked as a nanny taking care of the 2-year-old. He described Azarian as a former employee whom he and his wife, Barbara, adopted as a daughter when she was 40 years old.Yes. In 1999, professional golfer Payne Stewart and five other people died when the Learjet they were aboard crashed.
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