its seems like they ejected themselves, ejection seats are available but pricey
is there an affordable option for a parachute?
this was not the case, i based it on some aviation forum, but after speaking with someone 1st hand info from the search & rescue i was wrong
there are a few things here to look into
preventive maintenance,
how to deal with emergency situations when something goes bad mid flight
Search and rescue
recovery
garmin inreach only helps the last two
to find the solution for the problem we first need to understand what went wrong and that we don't know yet, all we know is that they were close to land, dropped altitude and clipped a tree, but we don't know why the altitude dropped so quick
a pilot on
KM is speculating that when the ATC said to go shallow he went to extreme, but we don't know
why is this treated different (in our minds) than a tragic car accident?
because many of us only relation to small planes are the accidents,
some of us have it in our dreams to fly one day, but such news makes it quite uncomfortable
usually things happen without any notice, but here the pilots noticed something is wrong and couldn't help themselves, such a situation passes shivers to others
bottom line we need to remember that the controller is the one above and everything has a reason and a cause regardless if we understand it or not