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Plane crash in Petaluma Airport

2026-10-08 01:01:12.013371+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

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Nixle Alert: Two Fatalities Following Plane Crash Near Rooster Run Golf Course.

Nearly 54 minutes of YouTube video of the crash site from a circling helicopter (Via). The interesting bits is about 40:32 and on because the camera zooms out enough to get enough context to figure out that the crash site is likely between the golf course and the access roads to the sports fields.

It appears to be N425RV, a Vans RV7a kit plane built by Robert "Bob" Frisbey, his obituary notes that he died following a stroke in June 2022, the FAA page says the certificate was issued 11/28/2023, so someone else finished the airplane.

Jake's picture link for N425RV notes that "presently owned by a test pilot for Joby Aviation" (an eVTOL startup), don't know the source for that.

The Flight Aware page has a bunch of circling around Monterey Bay out of Watsonville.

And reading approach/departure procedures for O69, the runway 29 is the calm wind (and prevailing wind) direction, downwind leg is east of Old Adobe Road, so the most likely explanation I can see for where they crashed is a power failure and stall to the left on climb-out. If they could have gotten the nose down fast enough there's a golf course to attempt an off-airport landing off the end of the runway.

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