Learjet 60 crashes in Florida - Crashes 9 Miles from Mar-a-Lago

[SolarWarden]

Seems like at high-ish altitude the plane nosedived at high speeds.

 

[tower9]

That audio is wild.

Out of time indeed. Life is so precarious.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Because the engines are so close together on the centerline you can't really even cut power to one to cause a sudden swing change in direction if you found yourself banking.

 

[safriz]

Maybe I've been desensitized but the recording doesn't seem that horrifying to me? Very unfortunate though

Same.
I understand its a recording of someone about to die.
But at the same time , that someone is also the person incharge if the plane, and the person who should be doing something about saving themselves and the passengers.

 

[PK781]

The margins for errors or technical prblems on these small jets is small and they don’t have much chance to fix issues if it goes into such nosedives (even bigger jets face difficulty).

As per the recording they were looking to climb but then something just happened and they nosedived…

hope it isn’t that same software issue which the Boeing Max had. Hope the NTSB can find what really happened to this small plane.

 

[safriz]

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Plenty of people scan air band radio and record aircraft and ATC communications. Its a hobby . You can buy scanning radios on ebay

You are correct.

There are even a couple people here who participate in that hobby.

 

[SaadH]

I believe this is a fundamental failure of technology. No matter what the conditions or pilot errors were, from 40 thousand feet there should be ample time and built in fail safe systems in place to prevent a vertical dive into the ground at full throttle. If icing can so easily render the plane unfunctional as we've seen with so many crashes due to icing of the control surfaces, than there should be triple/quadruple backup systems installed to prevent just this type of scenario.

 

[Davey Crockett]