re: Plane crash in Lafayette

Prayers for the families of the victims.

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Ian E. Biggs, white male, the plane's pilot, age 51 yoa

Robert Vaughn Crisp II, white male, age 59 yoa

Carley Ann McCord, white female, age 30 yoa?

Gretchen D. Vincent, white female, age 51 yoa

Michael Walker Vincent, white male, ag 15 yoa

Injured plane passenger remains hospitalized and in critical condition:

Stephen Wade Berzas, white male, 37 yoa

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Are they all related?

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you click the log you can see it was dropping 1500’/min 30 seconds after takeoff

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Most of the time at lft the landings and take offs are to the NE. I saw the wind today was more out of the SE, which isn't that common here. Likely that the take off was in the opposite direction and I wonder if that and the particular cross wind had anything to do with it.

Someone posted that the plane was dropping at 1500ft/min which isn't all that fast. The distance from the airport to behind the Walmart definitely points to some sort of issue upon takeoff. Looking at flight aware it looks like the normal plan would have been to take off towards the north, but they did take off to the south?

Did they bank to steep to soon maybe and stalled out? Where's our pilots to clarify, of they haven't already.

I’m not an investigator or expert but I am a pilot in the area.

Some reports stated that there might have been engine issues. Loss of an engine on takeoff in a non-centerline thrust multi-engine aircraft is dangerous. Yaw can become so severe it can roll the aircraft over.
My assumption is that he took off to the southwest then turned to the east to head for Atlanta. Loss of the engine then forced him to “circle to land” back on the same runway he just departed from.
Likely didn’t have enough altitude or speed to make it back. Maybe the low ceilings and bad visibility played role but who knows.

It looked like a pretty long debris field which to me makes it look like he tried to land in the field. If it was an engine loss maybe that particular plane doesn’t have good enough single engine performance to maintain altitude.

Vmc surely came into play here. And he did look like he came in shallow.

We all grieve in differently.

Steven Jr. is grieving by retweeting.

Thoughts and Prayer's to Carley's family.

I just realized it was a turboprop not a piston. A piper Cheyenne, not the average weekend warrior plane.

Local resident and eyewitness Kevin Jackson told KLFY:

'I was right outside before the crash. I noticed (the plane) was low and smoking like hell'

Wondering if this was after hitting the power cables.

So sad!

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Vaughn Crisp was the VP of Business Development. Robert Guidry is the CTO. Chris Vincent, (Gretchen's husband) is President of Global Data Systems.