Taking Off checks the claims surrounding Florida's fatal Learjet crash
Dan Millican's follow-up distinguishes confirmed information from online rumors and examines what icing, storms and overspeed limits mean for the jet.
Why this story? The whole channel is running at 1,200,906 views a day, 10 times a normal day (119,612).
What They Got WRONG About the Learjet Crash
Taking Off's first report stressed how little was known. Its follow-up, "What They Got WRONG About the Learjet Crash," tackles the claims that have circulated since the fatal crash in Greenacres, Florida.
Dan Millican describes a Learjet 60 traveling from Austin to the Bahamas with nine people aboard. All nine died when it crashed beside Military Trail. His follow-up addresses online rumors and questions about the impact crater, alongside explanations of icing, storms and the aircraft's speed limits. Those subjects are not, by themselves, an established explanation for the crash.
The coverage accompanies a sharp jump for Taking Off: roughly 1.2 million channel views in a day, compared with a usual daily audience of around 120,000 views. That is a channel-wide increase, not the audience for either report alone.
The initial breaking-news upload remains the more watched of the pair. The follow-up shifts the emphasis from reporting that an aircraft has gone down to sorting confirmed information from speculation, a distinction central to Taking Off's aviation-investigation coverage.
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- Channel
- Taking Off
- Subscribers
- 274,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,902,859
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,200,906 (on a normal day: 119,612)
The numbers
Taking Off's daily views rose to about ten times their usual level. The figures below show the channel-wide increase.

