Steven_R :
that's exactly what happened!! I used to fly planes every weekend with my brother he was a pilot, flying was his entire world, I've also heard a live tik Tok where pilots that actually fly this exact plane were talking and they all agreed it was a perfect storm of bad events, icing, flying through a 40,000ft storm cell, precipitation, turning to ice, the experienced a complete loss of the horizontal rear Stab which would cause the plane to pitch forward like a missile, when she called mayday mayday , the rear stabilizer was probably already gone!! it's just sad! they got caught in a situation that a Learjet just can't withstand, also planes can be traveling at relatively high speed relative to the ground and still stall out due to head or tail winds and or wind shear, there is a difference between ground speed and air speed, the two are independent from each other!! they could have also experienced mach tuck which is basically the airspeed is to fast to provide lift and it will cause a stall.. however many pilots have already chimed in that fly these jets every day and the general consensus is a total loss of the rear stabilizer...
2026-11-03 01:35:06