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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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Incompetent Incontinent dumbass that the stupid MAGAT ------- here voted for three times. Imbeciles.

#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:

nypost.com

#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

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

#14 | Posted by REDIAL

Unless it's buried in the Everglades

#15 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-11-02 01:03 AM | Reply

Unless it's buried in the Everglades

Hard to say. Could drift a long way in a cell like that.

I don't think they will find much in that crater.

#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-11-02 01:21 AM | Reply

hmm... instruments EM'd, new A.D.S. installed nearby days ago...

#17 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-11-02 11:15 AM | Reply

Just 6mm of ice increases the stall speed by 40 knots. The aircraft departs controlled flight before stall warnings engage. If you are flying on autopilot the aircraft is continually adjusting its trim and you can't feel what's happening until it's too late. The AP disconnects and hands you an uncontrollable aircraft.

Once you go past m0.81 you're in an overspeed, as you m0.9 you're into T-tail separation speeds. If you pull hard the tail "over-g's" surfaces leave the airframe.

The Flydubai 737 MAX 8 hit m0.96 in its dive and survived, but it's not a T tail design and quite a bit tougher.

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-11-02 11:41 AM | Reply

The number of internet sleuths who "know" this was a missile and not a plane is alarming... so much stupidity out there.

#19 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-11-02 02:40 PM | Reply

I was reading about this on and off today, amazed to learn that despite modern advances in weather radar and aviation, this could still happen in such a catastrophic manner.

I stopped when I heard the recording of the pilots with the flight controller. Are we really such a ghoulish society that we need or desire to hear the absolute terror of people who are realizing they are about to die?

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2026-11-02 04:00 PM | Reply

I thought weather was most significant when landing or taking off.

I figured mid-flight weather was easy to avoid by flying above or around it.

#21 | Posted by eberly at 2026-11-02 04:07 PM | Reply

High altitude crystal icing can occur without visible bad weather or rain. You can look like you're flying over bad weather and still ice up and fall out of the sky. Especially if you are on autopilot the entire time and can't feel the trim changes.

#22 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-11-02 05:18 PM | Reply

In air traffic control audio, a crew member can be heard declaring an emergency, shouting "we are in an overspeed condition descending 20,000ft per minute", before saying, "we are going to crash into the ground".

About 35 seconds after the initial mayday announcement, the last remark from the cockpit appears to be "we're out of time".

www.bbc.com

#23 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-11-02 05:20 PM | Reply

"The number of internet sleuths who "know" this was a missile and not a plane is alarming."

It was a plane. It only became missile after it was blasted by a targeted non-nuclear EMP system protecting Mar-a-Lago a scant 6 miles away from the crash site.

#24 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-11-02 07:15 PM | Reply

If it had been hit by an EMP, why were the radios still working as they plummeted 30-something thousand feet in about a minute?

#25 | Posted by jpw at 2026-11-02 07:43 PM | Reply

why were the radios still working as they plummeted

I have one word for you, just one word... tinfoil.

#26 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-11-02 07:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The NTSB briefing today said that the incident aircraft at one time had a cockpit voice recorder installed, but they are not sure if was still there or not.

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-11-02 08:01 PM | Reply

"If it had been hit by an EMP, why were the radios still working as they plummeted 30-something thousand feet in about a minute?"

If the EMP blast knocks out the primary generator, some components could switch over to a dedicated main and/or emergency DC chemical battery, which lack integrated microchips or complex circuitry for an EMP to affect.

#28 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-11-02 08:02 PM | Reply

"I have one word for you, just one word... tinfoil."

Yeah. Just a coincidence it was so close to Mar-a-Lago.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate.

#29 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-11-02 08:06 PM | Reply

I have one word for you, just one word... tinfoil.

#26 | Posted by REDIAL

So they prepared for a targeted EMP attack and wrapped their radios in tinfoil (all-oo-min-eum foil, BTW).

#30 | Posted by jpw at 2026-11-02 08:34 PM | Reply

If the EMP blast knocks out the primary generator, some components could switch over to a dedicated main and/or emergency DC chemical battery, which lack integrated microchips or complex circuitry for an EMP to affect.

#28 | Posted by pumpkinhead

Maybe someone more familiar with radios can chime in but this sounds an awful lot like *ahem* bulls*&^.

Because you can have a million batteries connected to that radio and it still would be fried by an EMP along with everything else...

#31 | Posted by jpw at 2026-11-02 08:35 PM | Reply

I'm pretty sure the plane just flew into really bad weather, became unflyable, and augered into the ground.

#32 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-11-02 08:41 PM | Reply

"I'm pretty sure the plane just flew into really bad weather, became unflyable, and augered into the ground."

Sure. After all, that is what the MSM immediately began to amplify and report as it saturated the daily news cycle.

#33 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-11-02 08:50 PM | Reply

"Maybe someone more familiar with radios can chime in"

I just did.

#34 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-11-02 08:51 PM | Reply

"Targeted EMP".

Right, because we knocked all of those Iranian fixed wing drones out of the air, EMP'ing away their electronic ignitions, radio, guidance system, servo controllers. We're the masters of the universe.

#35 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-11-02 08:53 PM | Reply

"We're the masters of the universe."

Sure!

I'll play Skeletor.

You'll be Moss Man.

#36 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-11-02 08:59 PM | Reply

Going to need one of the Floridians here for that one.

This crash is kind of pathetic to watch on social media. Left wing? Trump did it. Right wing? Girls can't fly planes.

#37 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-11-02 09:09 PM | Reply

They're just now figuring out the pilot wasn't actually the lady (copilot) and was a dude. Tough for them to come to grips with.

#38 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-11-02 09:13 PM | Reply

Female copilot was probably distracting the pilot with her tits.

Not tits allowed in the cockpit.

The cockpit is for men.

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-11-02 09:15 PM | Reply

I think the pilot was her fiance.

The passengers were a "tech entrepreneur", his wife & their kids.

#40 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-11-02 09:17 PM | Reply

"The cockpit is for men."

Agreed. Cuntpit doesn't have the same ring to it.

#41 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-11-02 09:38 PM | Reply

-The cockpit is for men.

White men?

#42 | Posted by eberly at 2026-11-02 09:40 PM | Reply

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