What Happened to Learjet N722BD? Florida jet crash (Real ATC Audio) — Transcript

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1. 0:00On Sunday, November 1st at 9:37 in the
2. 0:03morning, a Learjet 60, tail number
3. 0:06November 722 Bravo Delta, took off from
4. 0:09Austin, Texas, bound for the Bahamas. On
5. 0:12board, a family of four from Texas, two
6. 0:15friends, their nanny, and two pilots.
7. 0:18Two hours later, at 35,000 feet over
8. 0:21Florida, the ride got rough.
9. 0:24>> Say outside air temperature
10. 0:26-47°
11. 0:27Celsius. I'm managing the ice, but it is
12. 0:30moderate turbulence.
13. 0:31>> At -47, water is already frozen, and ice
14. 0:34crystals mostly bounce off a plane. Ice
15. 0:36that builds up points to a powerful
16. 0:38storm, lifting liquid water from far
17. 0:41below.
18. 0:42And storms were building through the
19. 0:43South Florida.
20. 0:45The crew asked to climb above it.
21. 0:48>> Right now we're picking up
22. 0:49precipitation. We need to climb um 370.
23. 0:53>> Climb and maintain flight level 370.
24. 0:55>> Less than 30 seconds later.
25. 0:58>> November Bravo Delta, we're descending
26. 0:598,000 ft a minute. We were descending
27. 1:0110,000 ft a minute.
28. 1:02>> Something had gone badly wrong.
29. 1:05A jet like this can glide for miles,
30. 1:07even with no engines.
31. 1:09This one wasn't gliding.
32. 1:11It was diving.
33. 1:14>> It's going emergency 722 Bravo Delta. We
34. 1:17are in an overspeed condition.
35. 1:18Descending 20,000 FT A MINUTE.
36. 1:21>> ALTITUDE YOU'RE DESCENDING. LET ME know
37. 1:22what you need.
38. 1:23>> Overspeed means faster than the jet was
39. 1:25built to fly.
40. 1:27>> November 2 Bravo Delta, I'm here with
41. 1:29you Bravo Delta.
42. 1:30We are descending 22,000 ft
43. 1:33and we are banking
44. 1:3460.
45. 1:36>> In just over a minute, they fell 26,000
46. 1:39ft.
47. 1:40>> November 2 Bravo Delta, Roger.
48. 1:47November 2 Bravo Delta.
49. 1:50[music] November 2 Bravo Delta, how do
50. 1:51you hear?
51. 1:53November 2 Bravo Delta, Miami.
52. 1:55>> At about 10 to 1, 2 Bravo Delta came
53. 1:58down beside Military Trail, a busy road
54. 2:00in Palm Beach County.
55. 2:02Two days later, investigators revealed
56. 2:04they'd found most of the left elevator,
57. 2:07the part of the tail that controls the
58. 2:08nose. Three pieces up to nearly 4 miles
59. 2:11from the crash.
60. 2:13Some experts think ice and turbulence
61. 2:15may have stalled the jet.
62. 2:16A former NTSB investigator says those
63. 2:18tail parts were probably torn off by the
64. 2:20dive, not the cause of it. But the NTSB
65. 2:23says it doesn't know yet. What [music]
66. 2:25started it is still unknown.
67. 2:27>> All nine people on board lost their
68. 2:29lives.
69. 2:31Adam Robinson and Helen Sharp.
70. 2:33Their children, Emma, four, and Charlie,
71. 2:36[music] two.
72. 2:37Anita Maria Cetina, who cared for them.
73. 2:41Their friends, Rachel Reed and Charlie
74. 2:43Fair.
75. 2:45And the pilots, Jeff Gregory and Natalia
76. 2:48Gadella Filgueiras.