# Investigation of Learjet Crash in Florida - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118150069798977665 - Source account: [@afg1911a1](https://x.com/afg1911a1) - Source language: Portuguese - Target language: English - Duration: 2:43 - Published: 2026-11-06 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida ## Transcript [0:00](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida) Have you ever wondered, where did the plane go? [0:03](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=3) An eight-ton jet crashed right here, and almost none of it is visible. [0:09](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=9) The answer is inside this hole. In two minutes, you'll understand where it went. [0:14](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=14) Greenacres, Florida. The Learjet 60 descends at more than thirty thousand feet per minute. [0:20](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=20) According to radar estimates, it hits the ground at more than seven hundred kilometers per hour, almost nose-first. [0:27](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=27) The angle explains the shape. A plane that hits while skimming along leaves a long trail of pieces. [0:33](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=33) One that falls almost vertically concentrates nearly everything in one spot and opens up a hole. [0:39](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=39) The jet is eighteen meters long. At that speed, the whole thing goes into the ground in less than a tenth of a second. [0:46](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=46) The nose stops, the rest keeps coming and crushes whatever is in front. [0:51](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=51) And an airplane's skin is usually about one millimeter of aluminum. [0:55](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=55) It's meant to be light, not to take a hit. [0:58](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=58) An accident reconstruction expert did the math: about 200 megajoules. [1:04](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=64) That's the energy of 13 loaded semis crashing at 100 miles an hour. [1:08](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=68) The aluminum shatters. The denser parts, like the engines, sink deeper into the ground. [1:14](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=74) About one ton of fuel turns into a fireball. [1:18](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=78) Aluminum melts at 660 degrees. A kerosene fire burns hotter than that. [1:24](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=84) It rained hard all week, and the crater filled with water below. [1:28](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=88) The NTSB had to pump out that water to get in and warned: what's in there must be in tiny pieces. [1:35](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=95) Even so, every piece is photographed, mapped, and kept. [1:40](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=100) From the fracture pattern, experts can tell whether a part broke in the air or on the ground. [1:45](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=105) And we already know: parts of the elevator, in the tail, They fell up to six kilometers away, before impact. [1:52](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=112) In 2001, Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania at over 800 kilometers per hour. [1:57](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=117) Only a crater was left too, but 95 percent of the plane was found, buried up to 12 meters deep. [2:05](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=125) In China, in 2022, a Boeing crashed almost vertically. [2:11](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=131) More than 49,000 pieces were found. That’s why the black box is made the way it is. [2:18](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=138) In the test, it’s fired from a cannon into a wall. [2:22](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=142) It has to withstand 3,400 times the force of gravity and an hour of fire at 1,100 degrees. [2:30](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/8Ht8uTmQkpwH/transcript-of-investigation-of-learjet-crash-in-florida?t=150) Records show that this Learjet had a voice recorder and the NTSB said it was very hopeful of finding it.