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IrelandAaron Rheins reads Learjet distress transcript instead of playing audio
His Palm Beach crash coverage draws an unusually large audience, with viewers discussing his decision not to replay the recording.
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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,126,931 views a day, 8.6 times a normal first day on this channel (247,668).
Palm Beach Learjet ATC Recording
The exchange begins with a Mayday. In "Palm Beach Learjet ATC Recording," Aaron Rheins reads the crew's reports of a rapid descent, an overspeed condition and banking, followed by an air traffic controller's attempt to keep them talking.
Rheins explains that the recording is difficult to listen to, so he presents the exchange as a spoken transcript instead. The accompanying aircraft images are flight simulator reenactments, not footage of the actual flight.
"November 2 Bravo Delta, I'm here, talk to me," he reads, quoting the controller. The Short follows the increasingly urgent transmissions until they cease. It recounts the emergency rather than offering an explanation for what caused the crash.
The upload has reached about 2.6 million views, far beyond the usual early audience for Rheins' Shorts. Several viewers specifically discuss his choice to read the transcript, including people who say they had already heard the original audio elsewhere.
A separate follow-up, "Palm Beach Learjet NTSB Briefing," has also drawn an unusually fast start, reaching roughly a million views. It continues Rheins' coverage after his earlier examination of the aircraft's tail in dashcam footage, as we reported here.
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- Channel
- Aaron Rheins
- Subscribers
- 1,530,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 18,331,542
- Channel views, pace per day
- 6,418,201 (on a normal day: 3,171,845)
- Video published
- November 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,582,120 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 2,084,695
The numbers
The transcript Short drew a much larger first-day audience than Rheins' Shorts usually receive. His NTSB briefing follow-up also started well above his usual pace.
