Video taking off 13x its usual first day

Megyn Kelly's pilot guest calls high-altitude icing "extremely rare"

The interview examines an altitude deviation and an emergency call in the Florida crash, drawing an unusually large audience for Kelly's Shorts.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 596,362 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (44,764).

Expert Pilot on "Extremely Rare" Icing Comment in the Cockpit Audio From the Florida Plane Crash

A reported 700-foot change in altitude is the detail Megyn Kelly asks her pilot guest to explain: was this turbulence, and how serious was it?

His answer is direct. "If you can't hold altitude, that's severe turbulence to me." The exchange comes in a short interview about communications before the fatal Florida plane crash, with the guest examining the weather conditions described before the emergency call.

Kelly recounts reports of freezing temperatures, precipitation and a request to climb. Her guest singles out icing at 35,000 feet as "extremely rare," and says the conditions preceding the rapid descent will be important to National Transportation Safety Board investigators. He is interpreting the reported conditions, not announcing a finding about the crash's cause.

The clip also answers a practical question: what does declaring mayday change? The pilot explains that it declares an emergency and allows the crew to take necessary action, including altitude changes and maneuvers, without waiting for prior permission from air traffic control.

The Short reached about 475,000 views in its first 15 hours, already far beyond Kelly's usual full-day audience for the format. Comments repeatedly focus on the co-pilot continuing to relay information during the emergency.

A separate clip from Kelly's pilot interview, examining why audio from a crash is unusual to hear publicly, is also drawing a faster-than-usual audience.

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