Posted on 11/01/2026 4:58:32 PM PST by Red Badger
Chilling audio captured the moments before a Learjet crashed into a huge fireball in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
A Learjet that departed Austin, Texas, en route to the Bahamas plunged at a high rate of speed and nosedived into a mobile home part nine miles from Mar-a-Lago.
The doomed plane erupted into a giant fireball and left a massive crater in the road.
All nine people aboard the doomed aircraft are dead. The victims have not been identified.
Here is the Learjet crashing on Palm Beach. Frame by frame https://t.co/nCoRIIDXGP
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) November 1, 2026
The cause of the crash is unknown; however, severe thunderstorms impacted South Florida in the Palm Beach region on Sunday.
Chilling ATC audio reveals the flight crew was struggling with moderate turbulence and ice before the crash.
“We’re descending 8,000 feet -- mayday, mayday! We’re descending 10,000 feet per minute,” the pilot shouted.
“We are in an overspeed condition, descending 20,000 feet per minute,” the pilot screamed moments earlier.
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Knowing how many male pilots f... up, I’m hesitant to lay it on women. They were fabulous in WW2 with ferrying every type of plane we had.
The female pilot on the radio was the pilot monitoring and not the pilot flying. The audio preceding the descent strongly suggests that they flew into precipitation from a thunderstorm at an outside temperature of -37 degrees F. This immediately formed ice on the wings, killing any lift. They were probably under full power as well.
Tragic.
Radar tracking shows they flew directly through a thunderstorm. They teach you not to do that on just about day 1. Its going to be pilot error.
Radar tracking shows they flew directly through a thunderstorm. They teach you not to do that on just about day 1. Its going to be pilot error.
I can’t see how those people in the white car turning out onto the street survived. In the fireball picture, I think that’s the car turned upside down and on fire by the fence.
(+ SkyDancer)
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Horizontal stab is missing. Sum Ting Wong.
I’ve never seen something that horrific.
There’s some posters, including some with apparent mommy issues that simply can’t wait for the accident report, so they get going to blame it on women.
“”””I’ve never seen something that horrific.””””
PSA 182 in San Diego, 1978.
144 dead, body parts raining down onto urban roofs after a mid air collision of a Cessna 172 and a Boeing 727.
The entire city was in shock and the mood that evening was similar to that feeling we got on 9/11.
https://hiddensandiego.com/crash-of-psa-flight-182.php
My suspicion would be that the plane was on autopilot - and so were the pilots.
By the time they realized they were in trouble, they didn't grasp how bad it was and how fast they'd have to respond.
I agree
OAT -47C, flying into a thunderstorm. Anti ice system not working or not turned on? Pilot error likelihood 100% unless ATC were insistent on a particular approach.
The aircraft erupted into a massive fireball upon impact at the intersection, tragically killing all nine people on board. The private flight (N722BD) departed from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) in Texas at 10:37 AM CST and was on a holiday transit to North Eleuthera Airport (ELH) in the Bahamas.
While cruising peacefully at 41,000 feet, the aircraft descended to 35,000 feet near Naples to avoid severe turbulence. Moments later, the flight path intersected a violent, moisture-heavy thunderstorm cell. In a chilling final transmission to Air Traffic Control, the pilot reported an outside air temperature of -47°C, stating they were managing structural icing but had just encountered a dense wave of sudden precipitation.
jeffostroff YouTube Channel
In this video, we perform a deep forensic breakdown of flight N722BD. We analyze the final Air Traffic Control (ATC) audio logs, break down the localized weather physics of high-altitude tropical storms, and map the minute-by-minute Flightradar24 ADS-B telemetry data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_JnpNtwVY
Thank you for posting all the links.
Listened to a podcast and the aviation expert said she was not the pilot in command...
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