"Ron Lee" wrote in message
...
. The aircraft left a crater three feet deep and fifteen feet
across, so it is a pretty well compacted crash site.

Reportedly newly instrument rated. Loss of spatial orientation,
stall/spin?

One witness said he thought somebody was racing up the street and then
realized that nobody could be going that fast, and another said they heard
the engine sputtering. (Which means it might have been at idle.)

-c