Heartbroken daughter reveals reason plane ended up in a descending spiral, killing her dad and brother

The private plane that crashed after plunging into a “descending spiral” Thursday night — killing a father and son on their way home from a baseball game — had a glitch in the aircraft’s weather tracking system, a heartbroken relative revealed. Jimmy Don Lewis, 48, was piloting a Beechcraft Baron 55 with his 22-year-old son, Brayden Ty Lewis, when their plane plummeted during a bad storm and crashed in a rural part of Illinois.Kelsey Lewis — who had flown with her father and brother just hours earlier — said a glitch in the aircraft’s weather-tracking system could be the reason why her family members decided to fly into the eye of the storm that night, the Daily Mail reported. The plane’s tracking software was 30 minutes off, which tragically led the father and son to believe they would “hit the gap” between flying into the eye of the storm and landing safely, Kelsey told the outlet.Shortly after Jimmy and Brayden took off from St.Louis Regional Airport, the plane lost contact at 10:48 p.m.

— and investigators believe the plane crashed around 11 p.m. The small jet was on in the air for 22 minutes before it crashed, Kelsey said.Jimmy was an experienced flyer and would have never risked flying through a storm, the grieving daughter said.“My dad, when it came to flying, he was very, very, cautious of everything,” Kelsey told the outlet.“Very cautious.”Based on preliminary flight data, “the aircraft appeared to begin a turn, possibly in an attempt to avoid the storm, before entering what appeared to be a descending spiral,” the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department said.The crash is under investigation.

The family had flown to The Prairie State earlier on Thursday so Kelsey and her fiancé could pick up a new car.Jimmy and Brayden decided to attend a St.

Louis Cardinals game before flying home to Arkansas.Hauntingly, Kelsey said she was unusually concerned about the status of her father’s and brother’s flight as storms rolled...