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Ireland"That's not moderate": Captain Steeeve plays a controller's May warning about the crashed Learjet
His latest Palm Beach update also notes what the NTSB's newest findings leave out: the right elevator and the cockpit voice recorder.
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New Learjet Crash Evidence Raises Important Questions
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- 0:00The NTSB has released new information, and the video opens with dashcam footage of the jet's dive.
- 5:16Radar shows thunderstorms building quickly over South Florida along the route from Austin toward Freeport.
- 8:06Miami Center audio, synced to radar, has the crew asking to deviate around intense storm cells.
- 16:16Audio from May: the same Learjet hit turbulence over New Jersey that the controller called severe.
- 20:54Debris locations lead him to conclude the left elevator separated during the high-speed dive.
- 24:45The NTSB update names many recovered parts but says nothing of the right elevator or the voice recorder.
A regular Captain Steeeve video usually draws around 350,000 views over its first full day. His newest update on the Learjet 60 crash near West Palm Beach passed 1.9 million in seven hours, and its comment section was already far busier than a usual first day.
The crash on November 1 killed all nine people on board. This is the latest in a run of videos the retired airline captain and former naval aviator has made about it. The new piece starts with the flight from Austin toward Freeport in the Bahamas. It lines up Miami Center's audio with radar as the crew asks to deviate around fast-growing storms over South Florida. At one point the controller says the turn to Freeport "looks pretty nasty."
The new material comes from May. Steeeve plays audio from a flight six months earlier on the same aircraft, N722BD, over New Jersey. The crew reports "moderate chop" and says it cannot hold altitude. The approach controller corrects them: "If you can't maintain altitude, that's not moderate, that's severe turbulence." Steeeve's question follows from that: "Was damage done to November 722 Bravo Delta that wasn't reported?" He expects the NTSB's preliminary report to show what the maintenance logs say.
He also comes back to the left elevator, the subject of his earlier coverage. Its pieces landed between 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the crater, while the dive began about 10 miles out. He concludes the elevator came off during the steep dive.
Then he goes through the NTSB's November 8 updates. The recovered parts include the engines, both wings and the flight deck. He points out two gaps: "No mention is made of the right elevator," and none of the cockpit voice recorder either.
In the comments, many viewers single out the controller from the May flight. Others write about the storm itself, and some thank Steeeve for coverage they call measured. The video is a family production, credited to host Steve Scheibner with Peter and Tatum Scheibner directing and editing.
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