Cessna Citation 551 crashes into the Baltic Sea

[QuickQuack]

Weird crash which brings to mind Helios Airways Flight 522. It's also on BBC but there are fewer details on there.

https://aviationsourcenews.com/news/cessna-citatio...

[HocusPocus]

Sadly this incident appears to have marked similarities to the cabin depressurisation incident which killed golfer Payne Stewart and 3 associates in 2000.

[aeropilot]

Pilot was an elderly millionaire entrepreneur who was the owner of the aircraft (through one of his companies). He used the aircraft to shuttle his family between his retirement home in Spain and Cologne (where he hailed from and is companies are based).
Other PAX were his wife, and his daughter and her fiancee.

[DaveyBoyWonder]

I don't know much about these things but is it not weird that Spanish air control lost contact with the plane but then allowed it to fly without any kind of further attempt to contact right over central Spain, through France until the Germans sent up a plane to try and figure out what was wrong? Or do they just think "ah well, nothing we can do about it" (is there???) and leave it to its own devices?

[Simpo Two]

Could autopilots be modified so that, in the event of depressurisation, it would automatically descend to (say) 10,000 feet? Might give people on board time to recover.

[Trevatanus]

Simpo Two said:

Could autopilots be modified so that, in the event of depressurisation, it would automatically descend to (say) 10,000 feet? Might give people on board time to recover.

I guess the risk there would be, you could have an aircraft descending into (potentially) busy skies without control or clearance.

[Simpo Two]

Trevatanus said:

Simpo Two said:

Could autopilots be modified so that, in the event of depressurisation, it would automatically descend to (say) 10,000 feet? Might give people on board time to recover.

I guess the risk there would be, you could have an aircraft descending into (potentially) busy skies without control or clearance.

Yes, it would have to activate some kind of radio mayday code so everyone knew what was happening.

[surveyor]

The automatic system is coming through...

https://simpleflying.com/airbus-a220-emergency-des...

[Simpo Two]

Hooray, I should have been an inventor!

Next, we need to scrap the wholesale energy market....

(waits for it to happen)