Update: 4 dead after plane crashes, catches fire in field near Snohomish during test flight

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Four people are confirmed dead after a small plane crashed into a field and caught fire near Snohomish, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

“With assistance from the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office, investigators confirmed 4 fatalities,” spokesperson Courtney O’Keefe said in an email Saturday.

Authorities initially reported that two people died in the crash on Friday morning.

The crash involved four crew members working for Raisbeck Engineering, a Seattle-based company that designs and develops modifications to aircrafts, according to a statement from Hal Chrisman, the company’s president.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/4-dead-after-plane-crashes-catches-fire-in-field-near-snohomish-during-test-flight/ar-AA14hmi9

[CentralMass]

1. 😞

[mn9driver]

2. In flight structural failure.

One of the wings came off well before impact. Very sad, RIP

[jmowreader]

3. The scuttlebutt I am hearing...

Raisbeck Engineering, the company involved in the crash, is currently inventing a cargo pod for Grand Caravans, which should be really popular because those planes lift A LOT of weight. This flight was intended to see if high-G maneuvers would cause the pod to fail in flight. The answer seems to be “yes indeed!” The pod either broke apart or broke loose from the bottom of the plane. Parts, or all, of the pod hit one side of the horizontal stabilizer, tearing it off the tail. (The horizontal stabilizer is the two pieces of the tail attached to the sides of the plane.) The plane went out of control and one of the wings detached from the forces generated therefrom.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Looks like you're right

https://democraticunderground.com/108223848