Hovernut
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A tragic incident occurred tonight. Just after 8PM EDT a Piper Malibu fell from a reported 26000 feet just a couple miles north of where I was driving in a torrential downpour.
We just had one heluva thunderstorm...had to be at least level 5...in the Longwood/Lake Mary/Sanford part of Central Florida just North of Orlando. The storms were drifting NE towards Daytona and I could see the MCO arrivals making big deviations to final.
Evidently a Malibu was on its way south from out of state and penetrated this monster. An eyewitness in Osteen, just north of Sanford, saw the a/c spiral to the ground apparently missing 2/3 of one of its wings. Reportedly, there was one male and two female occupants. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
In the FL's, will ATC vector you through this stuff? Can they see what's going on? It was still daylight and the ++TSRWs were plainly visible! I mean, who in their right mind would fly into that crap? I would imagine that that model a/c would have a stormscope of some type! And arrival/center traffic would certainly be chatty with deviation requests.
Do you guys up high deviate around a severe storm by 20 miles as recommended in the AIM? I just don't fly, or I set down and wait the 30 minutes or so here in FL for the stuff to pass or dissipate. I'm just trying to get a feel because I'll hopefully be flying a CRJ in the next few months....just got hired by Comair!
My heart goes out to the decedents' families.
John, Longwood, FL
We just had one heluva thunderstorm...had to be at least level 5...in the Longwood/Lake Mary/Sanford part of Central Florida just North of Orlando. The storms were drifting NE towards Daytona and I could see the MCO arrivals making big deviations to final.
Evidently a Malibu was on its way south from out of state and penetrated this monster. An eyewitness in Osteen, just north of Sanford, saw the a/c spiral to the ground apparently missing 2/3 of one of its wings. Reportedly, there was one male and two female occupants. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
In the FL's, will ATC vector you through this stuff? Can they see what's going on? It was still daylight and the ++TSRWs were plainly visible! I mean, who in their right mind would fly into that crap? I would imagine that that model a/c would have a stormscope of some type! And arrival/center traffic would certainly be chatty with deviation requests.
Do you guys up high deviate around a severe storm by 20 miles as recommended in the AIM? I just don't fly, or I set down and wait the 30 minutes or so here in FL for the stuff to pass or dissipate. I'm just trying to get a feel because I'll hopefully be flying a CRJ in the next few months....just got hired by Comair!
My heart goes out to the decedents' families.
John, Longwood, FL