Piper Cherokee 6 - Venice, FL - 5 Apr 23

[PeterNSteinmetz]

4 fatalities. Takeoff over water at night. Possible spatial disorientation?

Police: 4 dead in plane crash off Florida's Gulf Coast

Police say the bodies of two men and two women have been recovered following a small plane crash just off Florida's Gulf Coast. The plane had just taken off from Venice Airport when it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico west of the city's fishing pier, Venice police said in a news conference...

apnews.com

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

AOPA early analysis on this one. McSpadden abuses the term “visual acuity” badly here. Seems like a black hole departure with somatogravic illusion.