N850JH down @ KLDM 11/26/2023

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(FWIW, I made a stop at this airport for a hamburger on the 24th.)

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Plane crash victims were from Indiana, visiting family here

Plane crash victims were from Indiana, visiting family here By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief PERE MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP — The two people who died in a plane crash near the Mason County Airport Sunday morning, Nov. 26, 2023, were from Indiana, according to a press release from Michigan State Police...
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wowo.com

Two Angola Residents Identified In Michigan Plane Crash

MASON COUNTY, MI (WOWO) - Two Angola residents who died in a plane crash Sunday morning in Michigan have been identified. Michigan State Police confirmed Monday that 60-year-old Randy Strebig and 43-year-old Allison Wheaton were on board their fixed-wing, single-engine plane Sunday shortly after...
wowo.com wowo.com
https://www.masoncountypress.com/20...ied-in-plane-crash-were-experienced-pilots-1/ (picture is of a different airplane, definitely not a TBM700)
www.flightaware.com

N850JH Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Track N850JH flight from Tri-State Steuben County to Mason County
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It will be interesting to find out the facts of this accident. Both experienced pilots RIP..
Per the article..

Weather conditions about the time of the crash were 95 percent cloud cover with less than one mile visibility, snowing, with winds 7 mph west-southwest with gusts up to 16 mph. Temperature was 33 degrees.
 
And, report of a 400 foot ceiling (that lake-effect, probably). A downwind takeoff?

Accident Socata TBM700N (TBM850) N850JH,

A Socata TBM700N (TBM850) crashed shortly after takeoff from Rwy 08 at Ludington-Mason County Airport (LDM/KLDM), Ludington, Michigan. The pilot, passenger and their two dogs perished in...
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I wonder if this will end up like the SD PC-12 accident back in 2019.
 
ARFlyer said:
I wonder if this will end up like the SD PC-12 accident back in 2019.
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That was shortly after taking off with more people than seatbelts and ice all over the tail. This one looks a lot different than that, although there is one common denominator: Both flights were in extremely capable single-engine turboprops that can lure a pilot deep into a weather trap before they come up short on the escape.
 
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