Fair enough. I’d still like to know time in type, and I look forward to the preliminary report. Flight instructors aren’t immune to making bad decisions under complacency.
Well, yeah. I don’t know anything about the guy but I’m guessing we’re going to find out he’s a low time pilot on the aircraft and maybe barely IFR capable. This shit happens all the time.
"Doesn't sound great but we'll give it a try."
Maybe some GetThere-itis, a dose of falling behind the aircraft, and a little sprinkling of spatial disorientation. You can hear him try to turn the lights up on the runway right before the crash. Everything seemed normal until it wasn't.
Reddit puled up the LiveATC archive for 1030z, which is 0330 local. The poster says you can hear a call for a 3mi final at 14:15 of the link but I can't hear anything, even after downloading.
https://archive.liveatc.net/kmyf/KSAN-KMYF-Twr-Both-May-22-2025-1030Z.mp3
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a8cadf&lat=32.803&lon=-117.053&zoom=12.2&showTrace=2025-05-22&trackLabels×tamp=1747910803
Don't forget the Chernobyl liquidators, eventually abandoned and completely forgotten after the fall of the Union. "Ordinary illness; not related to ionizing radiation."