Earlier Learjet audio captures controller's warning: "That's severe turbulence"

Toronto Sun says the May recording involves the same aircraft that crashed in Palm Beach County on Sunday.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 320,965 views a day, 69 times a normal first day on this channel (4,653).

LISTEN: Same plane that crashed in Florida had intense exchange with air traffic control this year

Toronto Sun has published an earlier radio exchange in which a Learjet pilot reports being unable to hold altitude and an air traffic controller orders an immediate descent because of nearby traffic. The recording is from a flight in New Jersey in May, not Sunday's fatal crash in Florida.

The distinction at the center of the exchange is how the turbulence is described. The pilot initially reports "moderate chop" while saying the aircraft cannot maintain its assigned altitude. The controller responds: "If you can't maintain altitude, that's not moderate. That's severe turbulence."

As the exchange continues, the controller alerts another aircraft to the jet's difficulty holding altitude and asks whether anyone aboard is injured. The pilot reports no injuries at that point, but says severe turbulence is continuing. The clip presents the radio audio over a still photograph of an airplane, rather than footage from inside the flight.

The upload drew more than 200,000 views in eleven hours, far beyond the Toronto Sun's usual first-day audience for Shorts. Its description identifies the Learjet 60 as the same aircraft involved in Sunday's crash. That connection gives the earlier recording renewed relevance, but the exchange alone does not establish what caused the later accident.

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