CA CA - Will McAdams, 24, Palo Alto, 8 May 2015

[perfectingpink]

I wonder if the "date" in said charge is accounted for.?

Good question!!

 

[Sparky]

He is to be formally arraigned on the charges on June 2 and planned to enter a written plea of not guilty.


Update: A U. S. Coast Guard spokesman said the plane sent out an emergency signal at 2:45 a.m.


http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/05/18/pilot-was-arrested-prior-to-disappearance

 

[katydid23]

"The last radar hit on the plane showed it was flying southwest over the water, about 70 miles offshore, around 2:45 a.m., according to Allen Kenitzer, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman."

"Update: A U. S. Coast Guard spokesman said the plane sent out an emergency signal at 2:45 a.m."


Sounds like he might have ditched it in the ocean. SUICIDE maybe?

 

[Sweetgrits]

"The last radar hit on the plane showed it was flying southwest over the water, about 70 miles offshore, around 2:45 a.m., according to Allen Kenitzer, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman."

"Update: A U. S. Coast Guard spokesman said the plane sent out an emergency signal at 2:45 a.m."


Sounds like he might have ditched it in the ocean. SUICIDE maybe?

But if this is a suicide couldn't he have found a better way to go? Just think if he did crash and didn't kill himself he would just be out there as food for the sharks or die by drowning.

I think he called in an emergency signal to make everyone think he went down in the ocean. Instead he's laying in the sun on a sandy beach drinking a pina colada instead of showing up at his court date.

JMO

 

[KateB]

Palo Alto: Search continues for man who allegedly stole plane from airport
06/05/2015
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_28249828/palo-alto-search-continues-man-who-allegedly-stole

Where is William James McAdams?

It's a question that remains unanswered a month after the 24-year-old flight instructor allegedly stole a single-engine plane from the Palo Alto Airport and literally disappeared into thin air.

"All we really have is a stolen plane and a missing person," Detective Sgt. Brian Philip of the Palo Alto Police Department said in a recent interview. "That's all we really have to investigate at this point."

More at link.

 

[m_brown]

Wow still nothing. Should we take a poll? I'm inclined to think suicide..but gosh it seems an odd way to do it.

 

[GigTu]

Is there always some sort of evidence floating if a plane crashes in to the water?

 

[pappa rob]

Is there always some sort of evidence floating if a plane crashes in to the water?

No there's not. It depends how the plane enters the water. If it breaks up then you'll have floating debris.

 

[thesiren]

Interesting case.

Is it possible he or someone he knew was tech savvy enough to make the plane's signal drop? I agree he's out there. The upcoming (now passed) court date is too suspect.

 

[cvaldez1975]

i think suicide is a possibility. his case was abuse of a partner and these ppl tend to spin out of control when they "lose control" of the partner. if charges were filed she probably left him. which sent him into a bad head space.

 

[GigTu]

cvaldez, I agree.

 

[wendybtn]

As of February 2017, his sister posted on the company's Facebook page that she loves and misses him where ever he is.
https://m.facebook.com/FlyHighBayArea