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"Being young doesn't make someone a bad pilot," Dan Millican says of Learjet crew

His Taking Off breakdown of the Florida crash is nearing two million views, and its comment section has become a place where pilots defend the jet's young co-pilot.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,673,726 views a day, 20 times a normal first day on this channel (81,864).

What They Got WRONG About the Learjet Crash

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1:18Confirmed facts: Austin to the Bahamas, operator Aurora Aviation, nine killed aboard, no deaths on the ground.
3:44Millican advises viewers not to listen to the leaked recording of the final moments.
5:05The crash site is nine miles from Mar-a-Lago; he dismisses shootdown and air-defense claims.
6:30Reported icing, Learjet anti-icing systems and how a tail stall affects control.
10:34Why the governor's "missile" remark and a high-speed impact do not mean a missile was involved.
15:06NTSB updates on in-flight breakup evidence, the recorder search, and a plea not to share unverified names.

"What They Got WRONG About the Learjet Crash" sets out to separate what is known about the November 1 crash near Greenacres, Florida, from what has spread online. Before it is over, host Dan Millican, a pilot, also has a word for people who judged the crew by age. "Being young doesn't make someone a bad pilot," he says.

The Learjet 60 was flying from Austin to the Bahamas with nine people aboard. All of them were killed, and no one on the ground died. Millican starts with those confirmed facts, then works through the rumors. The site is nine miles from Mar-a-Lago, he notes, and he rejects claims of a shootdown. He also explains that Governor Ron DeSantis's remark that it "looked like a missile going down" described the crater, and that a jet hitting the ground at very high speed breaks into pieces too small to look like wreckage.

The technical middle covers reported icing and storms at altitude, how ice can disturb airflow over a Learjet's tail, and what an overspeed warning means for a jet's structure. He presents these as hazards, not a finding. A note pinned under the video adds the NTSB's later word that most of the left elevator was found miles from the impact site and separated before the crash. The cause has not been determined.

He also asks viewers not to listen to the leaked recording of the final moments and not to share unverified crew names.

Comments arrived about thirty times faster than on the channel's usual first day. Many come from pilots and controllers who speak about the co-pilot's composure on the radio, and about the controller who heard it. Others answer the attacks on the crew that Millican addressed.

With close to two million views, the video is approaching the channel's most-watched regular videos. Millican followed it with a Short on who picks a route around weather, using one of his own flights in his Cessna, and a Short on a helicopter collision in Nepal is also drawing a fast start.

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