Navi
April 19th, 2012, 02:23 PM
SARASOTA --
A crew from the Coast Guard station in Clearwater is on its way to a downed Cessna 421 in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to reports, the plane, tracked for several hours by two F-15 fighter jets, began circling the Gulf at 28,000 feet, roughly 150 miles south of Crestview.
The plane eventually crashed after the pilot became unresponsive and the plane apparently ran out of fuel. The plane was en route from Slidell, Louisiana to Sarasota when it went down at about 12:10 p.m., roughly 120 miles west of Tampa.
Source http://cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2012/4/19/small_plane_en_route
And this is what the flight path looked like:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N48DL
I guess it's too early for anyone to say what happened, it could have been anything... It's a good thing this didn't happen over land, or this could have been much, much worse of a story.
A crew from the Coast Guard station in Clearwater is on its way to a downed Cessna 421 in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to reports, the plane, tracked for several hours by two F-15 fighter jets, began circling the Gulf at 28,000 feet, roughly 150 miles south of Crestview.
The plane eventually crashed after the pilot became unresponsive and the plane apparently ran out of fuel. The plane was en route from Slidell, Louisiana to Sarasota when it went down at about 12:10 p.m., roughly 120 miles west of Tampa.
Source http://cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2012/4/19/small_plane_en_route
And this is what the flight path looked like:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N48DL
I guess it's too early for anyone to say what happened, it could have been anything... It's a good thing this didn't happen over land, or this could have been much, much worse of a story.