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To: SteveJerseyShore who wrote (33)	7/19/1999 5:09:00 AM
From: Brady B.	Respond to of 73

No radio conversation was reported. He could have flown into the ground without realizing it. It's called Controlled Flight into Terrain. In that event, he didn't know what hit him. bb

To: SteveJerseyShore who wrote (33)	7/19/1999 8:17:00 AM
From: cgraham	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 73

There are now conflicting reports. Some reporters say he did not drop at a normal rate of decent before falling off the radar, some day it was a quite normal rate of decent, some say he "fell off the radar" some say he dropped off the radar at the appropriate time one normally does drop off when coming in for final decent. Either way it seems to me he only had a few seconds to understand that he was in trouble and was so close to the water at that point that if he did pull himself into a graveyard spin, he must have ended up under water very fast, and very deep, given the velocity and speed you must gain being in that sort of deadly pattern.

To: SteveJerseyShore who wrote (33)	7/19/1999 2:16:00 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 73

Steve, My belief is that he was disoriented, lost control and slammed into the water fairly hard. It is quite possible in that scenario that they never even knew they were in trouble. On a dark hazy night, you wouldn't even see the surface of the water as it came up at you. One of my friends, 12,000 hour pilot, all of it in small planes, much of it in hard instrument conditions, nearly did this over the Gulf of Mexico. Pulled out of the sprial well below 1000' after descending close to 9000' without realizing it... mg