Cessna 180 near Coles County, IL, 4 fatal

[soilboy]

Coroner confirms no survivors in Coles County plane crash

Illinois State Police said this is an “active and ongoing fatal aircraft investigation."

www.25newsnow.com

 

[sourdough44]

I had read where it was 400’ OVC nearby? If so, operating VFR, investigation could be over soon.

 

[frfly172]

Sad condolences and RIP

 

[Jim K]

A few miles from KMTO, where one of my favorite restaurants is. It was cloudy & raining on & off all morning. Here's the mto metars:



Looks like they may have been trying to get back home in WI. VFR. In widespread low IMC and embedded storms. Looks like a FAFO situation sadly. They almost made it. It cleared up somewhat north of Champaign.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N4679U/history/20250419/1412Z/17KY/L%2039.37908%20-88.36274

 

[mandm]

When was this? I remember seeing LIFR on my Metarmap, sad.

 

[Jim K]

When was this? I remember seeing LIFR on my Metarmap, sad.

Saturday 19th at 10:15

 

[ColinD]

Airman registry shows the guy's last medical cert was issued January 2019, and no instrument rating. Bummer.

 

[mandm]

Saturday 19th at 10:15

Arg that sucks. I did see the weather was LIFR yesterday and it was predicted to improve but it took longer than expected. I ended up flying in the evening as a result. Sad.

 

[Albany Tom]

I get sometimes people taking risks sometimes. I don't get people having friends or family aboard when taking what appear to be crazy risks - intentional VFR flight into what looks like marginal IMC for instance. I always wonder if it's they don't really have a grasp on the risk, or they just don't care...hope it's the former.

 

[bbchien]

I sure he'd gotten away with it many times before - normalization of deviance. Whadda bummer.

 

[3393RP]

It's rather obvious IMC was in play.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Ugh... Looks like there are several orphaned kids as a result of this one, some of them small enough they won't even remember their parents.

 

[geezer]

The good news is they missed those large tanks! Probably would not have punctured, but that small chance of a huge fireball is still scary. With the natural lighting at the time, all the world was dinghy grey.

 

[ahmad]

This happened right in my backyard. The weather was terrible that day. I was supposed to fly a PA46 from that very area on that day and I canceled it. this was a terrible idea by that pilot.