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Megyn Kelly's pilot guest explains the danger of ice on wings

Steve Scheibner pushes back on questions about the young aviator's age before examining weather conditions in the fatal Florida crash.

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Megyn Kelly Story of November 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,654,423 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (126,781).

Expert Pilot Explains What Likely Caused SHOCKING Plane Crash in Florida

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0:29Scheibner stresses young pilots' training and notes that another pilot was also in the cockpit.
3:49He argues that rapid altitude changes, icing and turbulence indicate severe flying conditions.
7:01Thunderstorm air currents and supercooled droplets explain how ice can accumulate and disrupt a wing's lift.
9:14The discussion reviews graphic dashcam footage of the fatal crash.
10:35Scheibner attributes the final dive to an ice-induced stall and believes recovery became impossible almost immediately.

Megyn Kelly begins with a question about age. Former airline pilot Steve Scheibner answers by bringing the discussion back to training and the other pilot in the cockpit.

"Listening to that little interview with her, she sounds like a pilot," he says. His response sets the direction for a segment that moves from the young aviator's qualifications to the conditions the Learjet encountered before its fatal crash in Florida.

Scheibner, who makes aviation videos as Captain Steeve, examines reports of icing, turbulence and rapid altitude changes. He argues that the aircraft's movements point to severe conditions, then explains how thunderstorm updrafts, downdrafts and supercooled water droplets can threaten an airplane.

The central idea is straightforward: ice changes the wing's shape and can stop it producing enough lift. Scheibner thinks an ice-induced aerodynamic stall explains the aircraft's final descent. Reviewing dashcam footage, he says, "I think it was unrecoverable probably right from the beginning." The segment includes graphic footage of the impact and ends with a sponsored precious-metals promotion.

The interview reached about 762,000 views in seven hours, already well beyond the roughly 127,000 Kelly's regular videos typically receive in a full first day. A separate Short featuring emergency audio also drew an unusually fast early audience.

For readers deciding whether to watch the longer discussion, its weather explanation begins around the seventh minute, after Scheibner's response to Kelly's questions about the pilot's age.

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