OT: Learjet crash near West Palm Beach
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Private jet with 9 people on board crashes just miles from Mar-a-Lago
A small plane carrying nine people crashed and exploded in Palm Beach County, Florida, just miles from Mar-a-Lago.
www.foxnews.com
Looked like that was going around 500 mph at impact. Cannot even imagine.
We were in Greenacres a couple of weeks ago at a high school football game.
Not a good angle of descent. Can't even imagine what that was like leading up to impact.
Damn…that was basically a missile. 
Be interesting to hear what the hell happened. That was moving like a projectile. Doesn’t seem like they had much control the way it came in
This is really sad. That audio made me want to cry.. how did they go from flying to hitting the ground like a stark industry missile?
Ill never fly again. Even before this. Just way too many crashes the last few years. I might go out in a car crash but at least theres a chance of survival.
Ill never fly again. Even before this. Just way too many crashes the last few years. I might go out in a car crash but at least theres a chance of survival.
Did u see the game today? Noticed u havent bumped ur thread so I was kind enough to do so. Ur welcome.
That’s what it looked like. Terrifying.Damn…that was basically a missile.
Sounds like an icing issue.... They said they had freezeing precipitation.. Something had to lock into place to be at a 60 degree descent... And 22,000 feet descent..... Now they are saying 27,000 feet in under a minute... They hit the ground at over 300 mph....and listening to the pilots voice.... That's just gut wrenching...
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Lol commercial jets are overwhelmingly safe...theres over a 150,000 commercial flights per day or around 40 million a year
I get it. I've heard those type of facts and statistics forever. Theres a reason now that I've gotten older I don't like roller coasters either. Wont go out by a plane crash. Not falling from the ground anyway. Maybe like one of the cars in the video and get hit. Won't go out skydiving. Won't go out bunjee jumping. Won't go out by drowning in a cave.
Anything else is fair game. If I was falling in that plane going straight down I couldn't take those last 45 seconds. I would die before hand of heart attack.
Also pretty evident in her voice things were going wrong before she reported the loss of control.
I've made it almost 52 years by not flying,, that's something that'll never take me out.. Add in extreme mountain climbing,, drowning in lakes,, dying from bungee jumping,, dying on rollercoaster,, etc..
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I grew up around airplanes and airfields and traveled on them a fair bit when I was younger. Not a fan any longer mostly because of the press of humanity on a commercial flight. Love sitting in the cockpit of a small plane on take off and landing though. Jumped out of airplanes quite a few times too and I loved that. Bungee jumping and cave diving are the realms of the lunatic. But nowadays, I'll just drive.
They flew into the top of a storm. Tragic
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According to this video, they flew right into heavy weather, after already reporting icing and turbulence.
Learjet N722BD Crash in Extreme Weather
Learjet N722BD Crash in Extreme Weather
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I won't listen to the audio. Been around too much death in my life, and try to (as much as possible) not let overtly negative things into my head nowadays.
Hopefully they were unconscious prior to impact. Just awful.
Hopefully they were unconscious prior to impact. Just awful.
Don’t listen to the audio and don’t listen to experts on Twitter
The weather was absolute crap here today, with heavy rains, lightning and wind. This crashed while we were at the movies. When we were going from the car to the theater, we had umbrellas but were still drenched from the wind driven rain by the time we got to the door.
That audio was hard to listen too. Goes from mildly concerning to utterly terrifying really quick.
Someone posted the flight tracker and said they were starting their descent as they passed Naples at 41K feet. When they got close to Palm Beach County, they were at 35K feet and when they hit turbulence while having icing issues that it was quickly over.
Apparently lost their horizontal stabilizer during the event. Catastrophic
Wow that looked like a missile hit. How people just kept driving like Dur Dur Dur WTF was that Bob?
The only consolation I can have is it must have been so scary maybe they passed out with that speed, but they certainly didn’t feel much if anything. That’s god awful. Prayers for those families and those aboard may they RIP.
Yeah, they were losing altitude so fast, the fear would have been the worst. Made me think of Angels and Fuselage but they were going a lot faster.
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