By... something. Default assumption is a small plane, and that probably is it.
However, two things that are odd, and ask for explanation: The steep angle and speed the object came down out of the sky as it emerged below the cloud deck, looking about 1000' AGL, looked a helluva lot like a missile, not a plane. A plane with intact wings and even just one functional aileron can maneuver (very badly), and would be flying at a much shallower angle as the pilot tried to live.
Second, the explosion. It was titanic, throwing debris over an area covering about a dozen American football fields, igniting a house several blocks away, a minivan off site, and an unusually bright, huge fireball.
Again, all of this could just be a 152 pilot having a heart attack in flight. But there's some extraordinary aspects to this crash.
However, two things that are odd, and ask for explanation: The steep angle and speed the object came down out of the sky as it emerged below the cloud deck, looking about 1000' AGL, looked a helluva lot like a missile, not a plane. A plane with intact wings and even just one functional aileron can maneuver (very badly), and would be flying at a much shallower angle as the pilot tried to live.
Second, the explosion. It was titanic, throwing debris over an area covering about a dozen American football fields, igniting a house several blocks away, a minivan off site, and an unusually bright, huge fireball.
Again, all of this could just be a 152 pilot having a heart attack in flight. But there's some extraordinary aspects to this crash.
