Hi there, the same rules apply here as the True crime from around the world book, if I couldn't find a true crime case, it was replaced by a plane crash.
This plane crash takes us to the state of South Dakota, which Is located next to the following states: Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Iowa and Minnesota.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the plane involved in this crash.
On the 25th of October 1999, a chartered Learjet 35, registered as November 47 Bravo Alpha (N47BA), business jet was scheduled to fly from Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO, ICAO: KMCO), Orlando, Florida, United States to Dallas Love Field (IATA: DAL, ICAO: KDAL), Dallas, Texas, United States, the Learjet was carrying six people on board.
Early in the flight, the aircraft which was climbing to it's assigned altitude of 39,000 feet on autopilot, lost cabin pressure, all six people on board were incapacitated by hypoxia, which is a lack of oxygen to the brain and body.
The aircraft continued climbing past it's assigned altitude, it climbed to 36,500 feet, then it failed to make the west turn towards Dallas over North Florida, at this point ATC are trying to get in contact with the flight with no success and the plane continued on it's northwest course, at this point the NTSB was notified of the crisis and they scrambled to help and even got a couple of F-16 Fighter Jets to track the plane down, the plane was flying over the southern and midwestern United States for almost four hours and 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometres), the plane eventually ran out of fuel over South Dakota and it crashed into a field near Aberdeen after it entered an uncontrolled descent from 36,500 feet.
Impact with the ground occurred at approximately 17:13pm UTC or 12:13pm local time, after a total flight time of 3 hours and 54 minutes, the aircraft hit the ground at a nearly super sonic speed and at an extreme angle, as the left engine went before the right engine, the plane spiralled to the ground, the Learjet crashed in South Dakota just outside Mina in Edmunds county, it crashed on relatively flat ground and it left a crater of 42 feet (13 meters) long, 21 feet (6.4 meters) wide and 8 feet (2.4 meters) deep, none of the Learjet's components remained intact and all six people on board were killed in the crash.
The summary of the crash was Crew incapacitation due to a loss of cabin pressure.
