Fatal airport crash went unreported for 22 hours

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Sad. I'm guessing that they didn't have a 406Mhz ELT although judging from the photo I doubt anyone survived the impact.
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/04/21/fatal-airport-crash-went-unreported-for-22-hours.html
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2017/04/cessna-170-n4244v-fatal-accident.html
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I landed at Williston about 3 hrs prior to this incident, having diverted from my original intention of Cedar Key due to shifting variable and gusty winds - it was a challenging landing.
There were a couple dozen small GA planes on ramp then for a fly in BBQ.
I hypothesize the crash was only noted by the ? commercial jet the next day perhaps because he was the only one in that period monitoring Guard.
Hard to say...likely would've not mattered to souls on board...very sad loss of a family.
 
Center was trying to track down an intermittent ELT after the crash.
 
When I have 2 radios I will monitor 121.5. Late one night I heard an ELT near a mountain, so I reported it. I never found out what became of it.
 
Lots of GA traffic around X60 that day. Anyone on Guard?
 
Not understanding the deputy chief's comments:

"For all that traffic, no one thought to call us,” Connolly said."
"This is really a huge complacency issue."

Does this mean he thinks pilots saw the wreck and chose not to bother to call it in?
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Not understanding the deputy chief's comments:

"For all that traffic, no one thought to call us,” Connolly said."
"This is really a huge complacency issue."

Does this mean he thinks pilots saw the wreck and chose not to bother to call it in?
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It was a rather ridiculously ignorant thing to say.
 
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