What we know about the Virginia private plane crash

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Published 2023-06-06
Investigators are looking into the cause of the plane crash in a remote area of Virginia on Sunday. The F-16 fighter jets that intercepted the plane could see that the pilot was slumped over and incapacitated, raising questions about a possible medical emergency. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports.

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All Comments (21)
  • Sounds like we don’t know much. I was most surprised that the daughter was adopted at 40 years old. I didn’t know you could adopt a 40 year old. If anybody reading this, who owns a private jet, wants to adopt me, please let me know. Edit: so far, no takers to adopt me. I’ll lower my request to owners of twin engine turboprops
  • They never knew that that would be their last day alive. Life sure can change on an instant.
  • @imranbecks
    I hope to god all the passengers were unconscious so they didn't have to go through the ordeal of the crash 🙏🏼
  • @kj636
    Sounds more like personal medical emergency then cockpit pressure. It would have given warning if that was the case.
  • @barbm8822
    I don’t like conspiracy theories, but how did the other heirs feel about this 40 year old woman being adopted by their millionaire parents?
  • I'm also surprised that there was not another pilot onboard. Whenever I have flown private, there are always 2 pilots.
  • @een_schildpad
    Could have been hypoxia, but then again the pilot could have just had a medical emergency and the passengers could have just been sleeping/ not paying attention in order to notice? Autopilot would have just followed the programmed course until the fuel ran out.
  • @kugi123
    as an adopted person, this adoption is weird
  • The craziest part of this is them adopting her at 40 and now she’s living her best life with a nanny and private jets… I’m 33 and have never had any real parents I wish someone would adopt me!😅😕
  • Sadly moments rest in peace ✌️ to all. Prayers for Family ❤. Praying 🙏 to all Family
  • @rayjay238
    Did they shoot it down or did it run out of gas. Not one piece of fuselage
  • I thought we were going to find out what we know, not what we don’t know.
  • @Advisorbuggy
    the passengers would have taken control if they were conscious
  • Personally I always say there should be a co pilot. Even tho I have my license I always find a second pilot to fly with me
  • I wonder if that kind of plane was one of the ones that had an annoying warning indicator that would go off when there was no issue, and it was disabled by the pilot before they took off. Because if it was an explosive decompression, there is no mistaking what is happening in that instance! I think there’s also a button on some planes where you can disable the automatic cabin pressurization. Perhaps it was disabled during maintenance and they forgot to cut it back on! So many possibilities!!🧐🧐
  • @ericheine2414
    Cockpit hypoxia- loss of consciousness due to loss of cabin pressure. They should build a cockpit pressurizer with a sensor. Think about it, compensate for what's happening, and provide a warning. At what point in the pressurization cycles does the risk increase?
  • @JBoo
    I hope to God they were all just unconscious for all this. Prayers for those lost
  • What’s the backstory on the passengers? Any reason to believe someone would benefit from them being dead/gone?