“LT Walker may have attempted to turn level through the canyon, realized his turn radius would be too great to navigate safely due to his speed and attempted a vertical pull to exit the canyon.” “It is possible that LT Walker intended to fly through Star Wars canyon as most aircraft do-through the center of the canyon maneuvering to stay between and below the canyon walls until exiting to the east into the northern portion of the Panamint Valley,” the investigator wrote. Simulations later suggested that Walker was going too fast to pull up and escape the canyon before crashing. “There could be a sudden roar which can be startling, followed by a possible split-second glimpse of a silhouette, then the aircraft is gone,” the page states. The National Parks Service page for the Death Valley National Park notes that visitors may “not see or hear an aircraft approaching until it is directly overhead or nearby.” Charles Walker's death shows where his Super Hornet crashed in Star Wars canyon. A map included in the investigation into Lt.
