A loss of oxygen is a leading theory for why an unresponsive business jet flew off course and over the nation's capital Sunday before it crashed in rural Virginia. But federal investigators are just beginning to look for answers, and experts cautioned...
The Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport. Once over Long Island, it inexplicably turned around and headed south, flying straight over Washington, D.C. before crashing in Virginia, k illing the pilot and three passengers.
The Sunday crash wasn’t the first time a flight ended up far from its destination under mysterious circumstances.Hypoxia is the condition that occurs when someone’s brain is deprived of adequate oxygen. If untreated, it can be fatal. Waldock, Brickhouse’s colleague in Arizona, added that the pilot would have had about 45 seconds to a minute to put on an oxygen mask.
The fact that the pilot could be seen through the windows could mean that the aircraft did not have a “catastrophic” pressurization failure, Waldock said. If it had, the interior windows would have frosted over from quickly changing pressure at 34,000 feet. Plus, there likely would have been other damage to the plane, which kept flying.
Waldock said the plane likely ran out of fuel, given its rapid descent and the lack of a very large fire at the crash site.
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