Private Jet plane crashes in Florida

christophilus

Don’t just crash. Was full throttle into the ground, by the looks of it.

robot_jesus

It’s amazing to me that this post already feels quite old. But then I realized it only happened yesterday. I just feel that way because in today’s world we have seven different dashcam or security camera video feeds popping up on Reddit or X or whatever within minutes of a news event like this. Sad story in this case. The cockpit audio was quite chilling.

haunter

It looked like a missile https://streamable.com/lg0on2

eej71

I regret listening to the audio. There is nothing gained by hearing it.

jmyeet

It's unclear exactly what happened but I've heard some aviation experts talk about this and there are already some leading theories, which come down to two factors: 1. The so-called coffin corner [1] where the minimum safe speed for aerodynamic lift and the speed where the plane will stall narrows to a dangerously narrow window. This is caused in part because the speed of sound decreases at high altitude. Turbulence can throw you out of this window; and 2. It seems likely that control was lost because of ice. In released ATC recordings (which are awful to listen to, be warned) the pilot mentions ice. This is likely because of the bad weather over south Florida right now. The pilot requested a new flight path and I believe tried to ascend from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet and ended up in a spiral, banked at ~60 degrees, descending at ~30,000 feet per minute, crashing into the ground. I'm not a pilot but I suspect there will be some element of this that is pilot error or at least could've been avoided and/or mitigated by an experienced pilot. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_corner_(aerodynamics)

andyjohnson0

There's a thread on pprune about this incident. The usual mix of informed and less-informed speculation. https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/674728-lear-60-...

meowcat

I don't want to be a naysayer, but what is this doing on HN?

comrade1234

Is it possible to look up who owned the plane? Curious if it was a charter.

albatross79

Imagine your loved ones die like this and you find out watching these mouth breathing morons swarming the crash site, exclaiming "bruh!" and "bro!" on the news. The average person's mind is a real wasteland.