Learjet 60 Crash: What Was She Telling Air Traffic Control?
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On November 1, 2026, a Learjet 60 (N722BD) fell from 35,000 feet over Palm Beach County, Florida. All nine people on board died. Millions have now listened to the public Miami Center radio recording, and on November 6 the first officer's father and the family's attorney spoke to reporters. This video maps that recording call by call, checks the numbers in it against FAA figures and news reports, and sets out what each kind of evidence (ATC tape, tracking data, weather data, wreckage, cockpit voice recorder) can and cannot establish. No cause has been determined and we do not state one. We do not judge either pilot. The distress calls are shown as text, not played. The 3D animation is illustrative; real audio is marked on screen. General background is labelled as not a finding about this flight.
Chapters
0:00 Same tape, opposite stories
0:58 A Father's Words
3:24 The Tape, Call By Call
6:14 The Numbers Don't Agree
8:10 What A Radio Can't Hear
9:48 The Recorder Question
11:48 How It Will Be Rebuilt
13:13 What We Know
Sources
NTSB media briefings, Nov 2 and Nov 3, 2026 (Board Member Tom Chapman; senior investigator Timothy Monville); NTSB update Nov 5, 2026 (engine part recovered)
Miami Center air traffic audio, Nov 1, 2026 (LiveATC); transcript ours, machine-assisted, checked by ear, parts unclear
AP (Josh Funk), Nov 6, 2026: "Grieving father of Learjet co-pilot defends his daughter's reputation after crash"
NBC News (Nicole Acevedo), Nov 6, 2026: father and attorney news conference
Aerospace Global News, Nov 2, 2026: NTSB quotes on the cockpit voice recorder
AeroCorner, Nov 6, 2026: crater excavation and engine recovery
News conference clips (father Allan Filgueiras, attorney Stuart Grossman): CBS 12 News (WPEC), Nov 6, 2026, • 'I wanted to be by her side': Father mourn...
NTSB briefing clips: Nov 2 via FOX 5; Nov 3 via NTSBgov
FAA altitude figures as reported (35,250 ft to 8,750 ft in about one minute)
NWS upper-air soundings, Nov 1, 2026, via Iowa State University Mesonet (see our previous video)
NTSB, Learjet 55 accident, Philadelphia, January 2025 (recorder status, preliminary findings)
Marked as reported, not confirmed by investigators: CVR installation (maintenance records), the first officer's hours and certification (AP), the 12:40 text message (family, via New York Post), the 20,000 ft/min call (AP quote). Not known: whether the CVR was on board or can be read, who was flying, what started the dive, the cause.
In memory of Captain Jeff Gregory, First Officer Nathalia Filgueiras, Adam Robinson, Helen Sharp, Emma, Charlie, Anita Maria Cetina, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr.
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