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Pilot Debrief leaves the Learjet crew's final audio unheard

Hoover's Florida crash analysis has reached 3.6 million views, alongside a separate debrief of a fatal turn back toward an airport.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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  1. 0:00Hoover warns about distressing online recordings and chooses not to play the graphic audio.
  2. 3:24Camera artifacts can distort dashcam images; an apparently missing horizontal stabilizer remains unconfirmed.
  3. 21:43Composite radar reflectivity does not establish precisely what weather the aircraft encountered at cruising altitude.
  4. 28:22Hoover examines possible explanations for the dive without identifying a confirmed cause.
  5. 35:40The NTSB investigation will examine wreckage, flight recorders, radio communications and the sequence of events.

What does Hoover choose not to play? In Pilot Debrief's most-watched upload of the week, he warns about distressing recordings circulating online and leaves the graphic audio out. He reconstructs the radio exchanges instead, keeping the focus on what they can establish about the fatal Learjet flight.

"The Learjet Plane Crash Was Worse Than We Thought!" traces the Bahamas-bound jet's passage through stormy weather before its crash in Palm Beach County. Hoover examines flight animations, radar overlays and dashcam footage, including indications that the horizontal stabilizer may have been missing. He makes clear that this has not been confirmed, and that the cause remains unknown.

The other upload, "Pilot Tried Deadly Impossible Turn!", concerns a Mooney departing Beverly, Massachusetts. According to the NTSB findings described in the video, an improperly installed spark plug contributed to an engine backfire, but the engine was producing close to full power as the airplane descended. The investigation identified loss of control while maneuvering back toward the airport as the probable cause. Both occupants died.

Those two uploads are also the channel's strongest sources of daily viewing, while September's five-case safety debrief continues to draw attention. Across the channel, daily views are running at more than four times the usual level, and the week brought 20,000 additional subscribers. Nearby in aviation, Captain Steeeve is also experiencing unusually strong viewing.

For Hoover, a former F-15E pilot, the Learjet analysis ends with the work investigators still face: recovering evidence, examining recorders and establishing a sequence that the available images cannot settle alone.

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The facts
Subscribers
1,090,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
5,971,024
Videos published this week
2
Video published
November 2, 2026
Video views so far
3,607,638
Views on its first day
2,238,423

The numbers

Here is Pilot Debrief's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Aaron Rheins
13,411,163
Pilot Debrief
5,971,024
Diesel Creek
2,367,340
subscribers
1,090,000
▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days
total views
790,650,840
views per day
2,307,002
typical day: 559,829
first-day views of each video posted this week
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Aaron Rheins
1,540,000
Pilot Debrief
1,090,000
Diesel Creek
1,060,000
As of November 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
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