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Tanka Jahari retweeted
If icing was a factor at -47C, it will be the first such incident in recorded history anywhere on the planet Earth.
Tanka Jahari retweeted
Class action lawsuits are WILD cause wdym you’re Zelling me $7 to forget about you leaking my private data
Tanka Jahari retweeted
do you ever be laying in your warm comfy bed while your alarm for work is going off thinking what if i just shot myself in the head instead
Tanka Jahari retweeted
My only experience with planes is flying coach on Southwest, but let me weigh in and tell you what I think happened with the Lear Jet crash...
Tanka Jahari retweeted
hey bro did you see that plane crashed bro did you see it explode and kill 9 people instantly bro did you hear the woman pilot panicking and screaming on the radio as she realized she was going to die bro wait bro look at this other angle can you imagine bro look at these people instantly get vaporized bro isn’t this crazy
Tanka Jahari retweeted
Arizona voters are calling election officials because they can’t find Trump on the ballot.
Somewhere, a civics teacher just walked into the desert and surrendered to the coyotes.
Tanka Jahari retweeted
Per transcript and telemetry, aircraft encountered extreme high altitude icing conditions with heavy precip at 47 degrees below zero. It essentially became a rock with engines and nosedived nearly 40,000 feet in a minute or two. Just a terrible situation, this is why meteorology is so critical in aviation
Today's plane crash in Palm Beach County, Florida is a horrific tragedy
Here's what we know:
- At 12:50 PM ET, a Learjet 60 crashed in a neighborhood near Cresthaven, FL
- All 9 people on board were killed
- The aircraft departed from Austin, Texas, and was headed to the Bahamas
- The FAA is sending a team to the scene to support the @NTSB's investigation
Please join me in praying for the families and loved ones of those we lost — @FAANews & @USDOT are closely monitoring this crash and will share updates as we learn more
Tanka Jahari retweeted
Pilot flew strait into an updraft of a 45,000 foot cell.
Next time you complain about your airplane spending an extra 30 minutes going around a storm...now you remember why.
*Listener discretion advised, ATC audio from the accident.
A Learjet 60 crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida earlier today. The pilot reported moderate turbulence along with icing conditions. The aircraft departed Austin, Texas heading towards the Bahamas. The pilot later reported descending at 20,000 feet per minute.
Audio via @liveatc and tracking via @ADSBex
Tanka Jahari retweeted
This Learjet crash sure looks like an icing situation. They were at 37,000 feet over a thunderstorm and suddenly started descending. There's a transcript of ATC calls that mentions the icing.
Ice accumulation is faster on tightly curved surfaces. The tailplane is basically small wings, which means tighter curves, so ice accumulates on the elevator at the back. The ice makes it less effective, you have to apply greater control deflection to keep the nose up, and then you run out of control authority, or push it too far and stall the tail. The nose pitches down and you pick up speed, exceeding limits of the aircraft. The horizontal stabilizer may have been torn off during descent, it would have an IAS of over 400KIAS at this point. That's over the 340KIAS limit. Mach number would be about 0.88, and when you factor in turbulence the stress on the airframe is even worse.
So, I expect the horizontal stabilizer didn't come off until the overspeed condition.
Tanka Jahari retweeted
Arizona is one of only two states that don’t observe Daylight Saving Time (DST).
The Navajo Nation, which exists mostly inside Arizona, does observe DST.
The Hopi Reservation, which exists entirely inside the Navajo Nation, does not observe DST.
Tanka Jahari retweeted
A Learjet 60 private jet, en route from Texas to the Bahamas, crashed near Palm Beach this afternoon.
The aircraft was in a steep dive at the time of the crash, descending at more than 30k feet per minute.
Tanka Jahari retweeted
I don’t think the hydrological event in southwest Colorado is getting enough attention. This flooding event is historic and that is not hyperbole. The San Juan River at Pagosa Springs is now expected to crest at 19.38 feet; nearly 4.5 feet higher than the historic flood just last week and almost 2 feet above its all-time record.
Successive events of similar magnitudes compound impacts given that infrastructure has previously been weakened. I expect this event to cause significant damage to infrastructure across much of Southwest CO.
