“We have minimum altitude restrictions. And there ain't no 500-foot trees, right? So I don't know what they were doing. It doesn't sound like from his initial statement that there was anything wrong with the airplane. So that's usually not a good sign,”

Matthew "Whiz" Buckley · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-25

Buckley said the crash clearly was not supposed to happen and questioned why the aircraft was flying low enough to strike trees.