“I couldn’t see anything, not even a silhouette,” he said Monday morning as he looked across the street where the steep mountainside rose. It sounded even and normal, but, he said, “it sounded too low.”“It sounded almost like the pilot was hovering, trying to find his way,” he said. He heard a loud thump and the crack of what sounded like fiberglass, and all sound from the engines stopped. “A pilot is responsible for determining whether it is safe to fly in current and expected conditions, and a pilot is also responsible for determining flight visibility,” said the F.A.A. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss details of the investigation.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2020 01:54 UTC