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A Learjet carrying nine people crashed in a residential area near Cresthaven on Sunday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

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A private business jet traveling from Texas to the Bahamas crashed into a Florida neighborhood Sunday afternoon, killing nine people aboard and forcing hundreds of nearby residents to evacuate, according to officials.

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-- FOX 9 (@fox9mn.bsky.social) 6:15 PM · Nov 1, 2026

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#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-11-01 03:57 PM | Reply

Lawn dart. No one will survive that.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-11-01 04:07 PM | Reply

Sure looks a lot like Med Jets crash from earlier this year. Which was also a Learjet, albeit a 55.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-11-01 04:15 PM | Reply


Sure looks a lot like Med Jets crash from earlier this year. Which was also a Learjet, albeit a 55.
#3 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Both were also flying IFR ...

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-11-01 04:31 PM | Reply

In freezing air, request to climb, then sounds like icing, lost lift 20,000ft/min ....

NSFW radio call
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#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-11-01 05:55 PM | Reply

Lawn dart. No one will survive that.

The aftermath ...
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#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-11-01 06:21 PM | Reply

Some photo evidence that the stabilizer came off. That's seldom a good thing.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-11-01 09:28 PM | Reply

@#7 ... Some photo evidence that the stabilizer came off. ...

If that bears out, a manufacturing defect or a maintenance defect?

I know, too soon to tell. ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-11-01 09:40 PM | Reply

a manufacturing defect or a maintenance defect?

Or airframe stress exceeding design. It may well have come off in the dive, as opposed to causing it.

If it did detach, they will find it somewhere.

#9 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-11-01 10:20 PM | Reply

Some photo evidence that the stabilizer came off. That's seldom a good thing.
#7 | Posted by REDIAL

It's possible it froze and broke off given forces to move.

They requested higher altitude. But for some reason flew right into a very small cell of questionable weather.

-47C

But looking at the video stills it appears in tact, though shrouds around engine was missing.

#10 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-11-01 10:50 PM | Reply

Also the copilot stated 60 degree banking. Which sort of indicates all 4 corners were together at least at the start of the "descent"

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-11-01 10:53 PM | Reply

The max maneuvering speed for this plane was 205kt, and for sure it wasn't close to GW, so less than this.

It was travelling at ~400kts, which is ok in no turbulence conditions, but looking at the radar they went right through a cell at time of "DESCENT".

So yeah, the horizontal stabilizer and elevator might have failed.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-11-02 12:17 AM | Reply

@#7 ... Some photo evidence that the stabilizer came off. ...

I sure don't see a horizontal stabilizer on the Lear in this photo taken from video milliseconds before it hit the ground:

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#13 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-11-02 12:19 AM | Reply

don't see a horizontal stabilizer on the Lear in this photo

Someone will probably fish parts of it out of their pool in the next week or so.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-11-02 12:25 AM | Reply

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