Tesla Motors Executive Plane Crash, Mechanical Failure Theory
A twin-engine aircraft carrying three Tesla Motors employees crashed into a transmission tower and houses in East Palo Alto after departing San Jose Airport in heavy fog. While some speculate about foul play involving big oil interests, technical analysis suggests a mechanical failure, possibly an engine stall, caused the plane to veer left and lose altitude before hitting the tower.
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00:59 in San Francisco again. Yeah, I'll be back in the new Hilltop Watchtower on Sunday just up here to enjoy the fog! It's been so wonderful and we got like ferries are closing down airplanes are crashing it's crazy by the way your take on the airplane crash and I had some clips of that details but obviously don't have too many clips today You said thought they turned right but they turned left. Yeah, no I... So we're referring to the three employees of Tesla Motors and i must have received 150 emails of people saying ah there's a clear case if two to the head big oil killing executives seems unlikely yeah it was like you know is very unfortunate accident so what did do is that I checked out San Jose Airport information
01:52 Because flying into wires, I mean the thing is you have no details. What i understand It blew up in the air when it flew into the transmission lines. Now I think you pretty much have to hit the tower to explode in the air? No, they hit the top of the tower and took out all the power in the area Oh they did hit the top of the tower Yeah Here's a way that was described And like I said I had this on clips but I can tell what it was The plane took off and then quickly veered to the left instead of just going straight out in the direction of the runway which is supposed to do and veered to the left really quickly, and then almost took a complete right turn just a very oblique right turn. And then couldn't get altitude I guess and slammed into the tower top of the tower, sheared off a wing and went crashing into the houses that were there. Okay so first thing I did was look at the notices to airmen, the NOTAMs
02:49 and it clearly said there was transmission tower, a hundred foot transmission tower to the east of the field so that would have meant they would have turned right but then I was looking further yesterday and looking at the reports that make no sense because there's no houses there you're basically in the bay. So that's not where they came down And uh... the departure even- because you can depart in bad weather You can depart in fog no problem but now to hear that they suddenly veered left I believe that this may have been a case mechanical failure because it was a two-engine twin engine plane exactly and probably one of the engines failed they couldn't recover quickly enough and you know when one of the engines differs in power, you have a high likelihood of a quick snap to the other direction
03:35 the opposite direction of the engine that has failed. And apparently never got above 60 feet? Oh yeah, well then you're definitely into the tower so I think it's probably mechanical... no matter what in aviation we call this a bad day. Yeah and they have an apparently very experienced pilot and a nutball and so on. Wait a minute why does an experienced pilot have to be a nutball No, I said and a nutball he was an engineering crazy. You know well Yeah see this thing always but it's all about the maintenance it really It's either mechanical or its pilot error there's just no other There's there's no other options so sounds to me like this was a mechanical failure as horrible Yes terrible But you know what? I don't like is on the you know people are like yeah They should have taken off in fog and that means it's no problem. You can take off from fog. It's not an issue
