Recent content by Scott Carpenter

All I know is that the runway is 4700 feet long -- can't say on any of the other questions.

Thanks -- I know you can hardly venture definitive answers without much more information, and that the official word from the NTSB investigation is the only official or verifiable source of answers here. Still, are there any typical malfunctions or pilot errors that one might expect in the case...

As some of you may know, two weeks ago a Cessna 310b crashed while taking off from a small, one-runway airport in Columbia, California, a small town near the base of the Sierra Nevadas. All four on board were consumed in flames and died. I'm a reporter at that town's local newspaper, the Union...