Learjet 60

down.

When I first read about this, one of the first things I was hearing people that were experienced in aviation saying is that one of the weak points on a Learjet 60, which is what crashed.

By the way, I'm not an expert by any means whatsoever, but they said that a weak point was the T, the T part of the plane.

What is it called? The T-Wing.

Because Florida received almost 18 inches of rain in two days.

There was some crazy weather system that nobody could have predicted would affect airplanes this badly, I think, because what they should have done, especially that Learjet 60, I believe it was called, it doesn't handle chop well, and it doesn't handle quick corrections very well.

It's a very sensitive, hard-to-fly airplane, and a lot of pilots won't even fly them.

Well, what I understand, too, is that they're not meant to.

That's just like a general catch-all because it's a smaller vehicle.

A Learjet 60, tail number N722BD, went down around 11.50 a.m. Central Time.

This is last Sunday.

Greenacres, Palm Beach County, and all nine aboard it died.

And it sent me down a rabbit hole of like, you know, what happened? And that is extraordinary.

What happened is I started learning about the Learjet 60.

And the thing about the Learjet 60 is that unlike other jets, this Learjet has particularly tiny wings, which, you know, jets generally aren't that...

What's the word? Not aerodynamic, but they don't naturally fly.

They fly because of the sheer power of their engines.

And so you don't, in theory, need that big a wing.

But...

The problem for the Learjet 60 is that if it enters turbulence, the jet can get thrown around a lot, and that can change the speed of the jet.

Ledge end.

I only have one bonus story this week, and that is the crash of a Learjet 60 in Palm Beach County, Florida, last Sunday.

The crash itself isn't a dumb story.

planes crash sometimes nine people died in this incident seven passengers and two pilots extreme weather is a suspected factor in the tragic incident and i wish the families and friends of all involved peace what is dumb however is the conspiracy mill that started basically the moment the plane hit the ground there is some video of the crash as well as audio of the pilots communicating with ground control the plane may have been moving faster than the speed of sound and the angle of impact was nearly straight down For whatever it's worth, Learjets are not designed to fly at supersonic speeds.

The other conspiratorial thread is that some people believe that there should have been visible wreckage of the plane in the crater where it struck the ground.

It ain't like the movies, people.

When something strikes the ground at hundreds of miles per hour, as this Learjet 60 did, the force of that impact is beyond sufficient to vaporize most of an entire jet, or at a minimum, leave only small fragments behind.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash, and we will all know the results of their findings at a future date.

Because once again, I think that in itself is interesting.

Now, the original report was basically that this 22-year-old twin-engine Learjet 60 crashed after taking off from Austin, Texas, and was headed to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas.

But this is according to the FAA.

But the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.

Questions this morning about what caused a horrific and deadly plane crash in a South Florida neighborhood.

This is the terrifying moment a driver's dash cam captured the private jet in a nosedive, slamming into a mobile home park, bursting into a fireball.

The private Learjet 60 took off from Austin, Texas Sunday morning and went down just before 1 p.m. in Palm Beach County.

It was heading to the Bahamas when, over Florida, the pilot reported trouble.

Coming in at number 10.

Private Learjet 60 crashes in Florida, killing all nine souls on board.

The cause is still under investigation, but there were severe weather conditions, and the NTSB has confirmed evidence of in-flight breakup of the jet, caused either by the weather or the extreme speed of the descent.

The deceased included a family of four with two small children, ages four and two.

Where's the plane? Now, obviously, this is a different type of incident than what happened at the Pentagon.

And we can see right here, a shape in the concrete that is basically, as I look at it, the exact same shape as the leading edge of the wing and the winglet on a Learjet 60 and what we would see here is molecules of aluminum as the thing slammed into the pavement.

Now, it would have been instantly pulverized into probably thousands or hundreds of thousands of minuscule pieces because it hit, I mean, that video that I played in the beginning spoke about the number of hundreds of pounds of TNT, the kinetic energy that this thing hit with was so tremendous.

And additionally, I want to add, for the people who are speculating that this might be a missile, Let's just, from a logical standpoint, what is the purpose of putting a missile into the sidewalk in front of an RV park? Where would that missile have been launched from? Is this an intercontinental ballistic missile from Iran, from Russia, North Korea, Israel, China? Where? Where would it come from? How would it not be noticed by the US military? And any missile would have an explosive warhead that would have created a shockwave and an explosion and a fire that would have taken out all of these poles.