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"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in message
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"three-eight-hotel" wrote in message
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That's what struck me... I haven't heard any details about the
accident, but you have to wonder why it went down at that angle and
attitude???


You wonder if it is a stall/spin stretched glide or icing or something
else
but I haven't seen any info.

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DW


I'm not a pilot so my judgement is not expert, but around 6:15 p.m. on
Jan.
31 north of Countryside Lake in Mundelein, I saw the lights of a plane
headed east which made the plane appear to me to be flying very low. It
just
didn't seem normal. Only a minute or two before, as I was getting into my
car, I was surprised by ice on it, as it was not very cold nor was it
raining, but the air was definitely damp.

A few hours later, upon hearing the news bulletins on TV of a plane that
crashed just before 6:30 p.m. at Palwaukee, I immediately thought of the
plane I saw earlier. Might it have been flying over Countryside Lake
(about
12 mi. NW of Palwaukee) around that time? Would you fly low if icing was a
problem?

MW


Only to try to find warmer air down low above freezing. Air typically cools
as you climb unless there is a temperature inversion. But it is hard to say
if that was the plane or not. I have flown into PWK but I am not familiar
with the area. Could just be a low level VFR corridor over your area and
nothing out of the normal. Guess that is why we pay the NTSB. The plane that
crashed was a twin engine plane.

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DW