NTSB UPDATE: LEARJET 60 CRASH Captain Steve breaks down the latest information released by the NTSB, examining the findings, timeline, and details surrounding the tragic crash.

You loose the rear stabilizer you’re cooked

I can’t help but think of the parents in the back with their precious children knowing they couldn’t do anything to save them.

All the comments talking trash on the female Co pilot yet she professionally communicated their predicament to ATC, most likely knowing she was about to die. Her radio work will be an enormous help to the forensic investigation as to what happened. She was 20 years old. One of the most difficult part of aviation is communicating on the radio. People taking shit about her can't even be bothered to use their turn signals in traffic.

In their communication with ATC before they called in the Mayday, they indicated that they had altitude fluctuations of 600-700 feet. That sounds like they were bouncing up and down by 700 feet. That sure sounds like it could break off an elevator?

ATC to N722BD: "..the turn to Freeport looks pretty bad. There is moderate to EXTREME precipitation, 11 o'clock, and 25 miles. 100 miles in diameter." So, why did Captain Jeff Gregory turn into the storm, anyway?

This is the million dollar question.. why did he? Was his radar malfunctioning?

Why didn’t they go inverted like Denzel Washington?

30 minutes of talking and 30 seconds of info. This guy loves his own voice!

Why the hate? If you follow Steve’s videos, he consistently shares his insight whenever there’s an aviation accident or incident. More often than not, his analysis turns out to be spot on. This videos was just an update so he’s just rambling about a the same thing.

I wanna know when the last time that part was serviced and by who.

It was somewhat obvious even for amateurs as the video showed the elevator was not present upon impact.

Thank you sir for the info

It actually looks to me like at least the right stabilizer could still be attached and the video just couldn’t capture it well enough. It has a similar darkness near the tail as the right wing does. I wouldn’t be surprised if the left one is there too, just missing its elevator.

To put the 700 ft -600ft loss of altitude in their ‘moderate chop/ turbulence’ Seattle’s Space Needle is Approximately 605 feet tall…

Yeah I’m not sure anything they endured was moderate to be honest.

So would the pilots have known the elevators were gone. Is that why the captain can be heard praying and not trying to save the dive??? Serious question. I’m not a pilot.

Loosing the stabilizer and elevator would shift the CG way forward, and at over speed the center of pressure moves back on that type of wing? Tragic, unrecoverable dive.

Who told you the left elevator was $100? I can’t imagine it being that price.

@ChiTown_Burgh Yeah no I decided to look it up. It's not the specific plane but I decided to just look up like a cessna's rear elevator. The part that fell off just for that plane. It's between brand new 4000 to $10,000.... Not a cheap part to break off.

@ChiTown_Burgh He’s just a internet troll trying to get validation by saying the most random false things lol

“Why can we see the telephone poles… they’re not moving” “ah, thanks Captain Steve, we just talkin about that at the Learing Center”

Deicing couldn’t keep up, which changed the wing profile. At that point, there’s incredible stress on the elevator and it tore off

Exactly! They were already dealing with the stress of navigating the storm, and on top of that, they requested to climb to get above it. Climbing is the last thing you want to do in that kind of situation.

Steve- American Airlines would probably prefer you used a generic model of a jet aircraft, not one with their colors. Maybe a Boeing, or Airbus or maybe even a Lear jet.

Just a quick chime in… The HORIZONTAL STABILIZERS were completly removed. Elevators are the control surfaces of the Horizontal Stabilizers.

just look at slow motion of impact, there u can see there was no elevator on the learjet. not new.

Less about the “speed” of the aircraft & more about the the lack of contrast between the color of the clouds in the background, color of the left wing & if it was still intact, the left “elevator” this man is speaking about. Being the same color makes the wing look invisible.

Maybe the NTSB released the 1.3 to 3.8 mile reference so civilians can help them locate those pieces.

Any thoughts on this previous incident?

shutter rate shows plane, engines, stabilizer. So it would also have shown elevator if there was one. left eing disappears in grey clouds, similar colours

I saw a broken water pipe pouring water into the crater. the water must've been shut off or else the crater would have been overflowing.

Relax little Fella

Ok if there was breakup of the aircraft why didn’t they report that over the radio?

Yeah, that can happen during an overspeed.

If you overspend for whatever reason you must do the overspeed recovery procedure. If you don’t stuff will come off your aircraft. The parts falling off are a result of not recovering the aircraft from the overspeed. Looks incomplete to me….see step 6.

Sorry Capt Steve, but there’s no way the left ‘elevator’ could come off at 35,000 feet and land at 1.8 miles from the site of impact.

It is absolutely heartbreaking to think of the kids. No child should ever have to experiemce that level of fear and I just pray the parents held them tight before impact

Would the loss of the left elevator cause the 60* bank to the right?

Realistically, yes. If elevator control is lost, the aircraft could bank either way depending on factors like asymmetric ice buildup, uneven airflow, wind, or differences in aerodynamic forces across the wings.

Crazy. Super sad.

It’s truly heartbreaking, man. So many young lives lost. Based on what we’ve learned so far, it increasingly appears that a lapse in judgment by the pilot in command may have cost eight people their lives, including his own.

Vogliamo colonizzare marte ma non siamo in grado di salvare un aereo in panne con tutta l'immensita' del cielo a disposizione.

I like capt Steve but hes too longwinded