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Small airplane from Austin involved in fiery crash
PEARLAND, Texas -- A small airplane from Austin went down in a fiery crash at Pearland Regional Airport early Wednesday. (www.kvue.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Ken, I hope this was not you nor a close friend
Visibility at KGLS has been 1/4 mile with heavy fog all night and morning, with the TAF forecasting very little improvement so the weather conditions should not have been a surprise. I don't see any IFR flights into KGLS, so I'm assuming he was attempting to fly VFR?
Other news sources are saying it was N811BL. That specific aircraft is blocked and was operating under an IFR flight plan apparently, so presumably the hard IFR just became too disorienting.
http://kxan.com/2014/02/19/aircraft-crashes-near-pearland-regional-airport-while-trying-to-land/
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N811BL
http://kxan.com/2014/02/19/aircraft-crashes-near-pearland-regional-airport-while-trying-to-land/
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N811BL
Aviation Safety Network page about the incident... http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=164022