Gash said:
The article is pay walled.
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Here's the text --

"A pilot died after an airplane crashed in Corona on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 16, authorities said.

The Corona Fire Department responded to a call of an aircraft down and a vegetation fire in the area of Auburndale and Rincon streets around noon and that one person was found dead inside the plane after the fire was put out, department officials said in a Facebook post.

The location of the crash is less than a mile east of the airport.

The plane, a single-engine Vans RV8, crashed shortly after departure from Corona Municipal Airport and the pilot was the only one on board, said Steven Kulm, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.

The crash started a vegetation fire, but firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, firefighters said."
 
goatflieg said:
Why would Aviation Safety speculate on the N number? That seems... wrong.
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From what I understand, the website is kind of a wiki, where people can add/delete/modify information - perhaps someone thought that this was the correct N number.
 
To top it off, the number listed with two numbers transposed is the same as an RV8 located at Corona that was not involved. Whew.
 
The vertical green line is approximately the location of the runway where RV8 lifted off.
When taking off from runway 25, most RV are off the ground before the black line.
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This is very sad. There is so much risk in aviation when we do everything right. No idea what happened in this accident, but reading the NTSB Prelim, there are some things to learn.

As an aside, seriously NTSB, can you not hire someone to proofread these reports?

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It is so distressing to see folks post things in an effort to be "first". First reports are almost always wrong. Why can't we let the dust settle, and get the correct facts a bit later?

Case in point: Early postings show one fatality, later postings show two. They both can't be accurate ! YIKES!
 
rv8ch said:
This is very sad. There is so much risk in aviation when we do everything right. No idea what happened in this accident, but reading the NTSB Prelim, there are some things to learn.

As an aside, seriously NTSB, can you not hire someone to proofread these reports?

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This report strongly resembles an AI composition.
 
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