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For anyone still interested, the METAR provided in this thread was an incorrect assumption on the current weather at Auburn. Weather data suggests high ceilings and clear visibility but high probability of icing conditions. Crash data suggests 20° nose down attitude, and heading consistent with...

Jesse, there are a lot of factors to consider leading up to the accident and I think that your post does a good job at conveying that. Seems like we will have to wait for final reports to come out and can only speculate on what actually happened. Reading up on what can happen to avionics if...

I would expect the same thing. I'm also not completely sure what the instrument or cockpit lighting was like. N22859 had an aftermarket LED strip installed and plugged into a cigarette lighter port facing down on the avionics. Maybe something could have happened in flight, they lost lighting...

@NoHeat Assuming they did VFR into IMC, and possibly ran into icing conditions, what could have happened to lead to loss of control? Colton had his CFII rating and should have been up to date with instrument flying, though we typically flew out of a different plane (a 172 with garmin avionics)...

Thanks, Tom. It's definitely sad what happened. According to another one of his students and looking at historical metar at KLNK it was definitely a bit windy, though it might not be a windstorm by definition: > KLNK 120654Z 36017G29KT 7SM OVC009 M02/M05 A3010 RMK AO2 PK WND 35030/0632 SLP205...

Made an account to post here. I was a student of the instructor in the accident. The plane was an old Cessna 150 with no new avionics, only VOR for navigation and afaik no ADS-B in. From talking with other folks familiar with the area, we were having a wind storm in Lincoln the night of. Is...