Viewer discretion advised. This is a 3 minute real time replay of the Florida Learjet 60 crash, with the uncut ATC audio.
It pulls together public ADS-B, weather radar, satellite, dashcam and drone video onto one timeline.
Here's what we know as of Nov 2 based on OSINT and today's NTSB briefing:
- Went from ~35,000 ft to impact in ~78 seconds
- Flew into a string of thunderstorms
- Crew reported ice and turbulence; asked to climb then issued a mayday
- All nine aboard are deceased, with one person injured on the ground
- Plane debris spread across half a mile and still being recovered
- NTSB says there is some evidence the jet broke up before impact
- Weather at altitude is a key focus of the investigation; but the official cause is still TBD
I make a lot of 4D reconstructions and this is the most visceral and gut wrenching thing I’ve heard in a long time. My heart goes out to the families of those on board. Important to note that the details so far point to severe weather at altitude rather than a missile or air defense system.
I continue this week with deep sense of my helplessness overall. I turned to reading Marcus Aurelius:
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it," and "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one".
@ElonMuskAOC Allow them to speak, so no removal of accounts. but perhaps the posts should be pinned to the top of their profiles for a while. That way anyone who views it can see their true colors.
I don't know why you say things like this. Do you really think this is the time to be talking about how Charlie Kirk isn't going to get in to heaven? That's a crazy inflammatory thing to say. How the hell would you know? Are you God? Why would you antagonize people like that?
I wish I could like this a thousand times
American is spending his days “going around on the internet finding people making fun of Charlie Kirk’s death and I go and report them to their employers so they get fired”
“We have sent out over 300 emails to employers and we have gotten now 15 confirmed fires”
“Now truth being told, I've probably lost about 50,000 followers throughout all social medias while I'm doing this, but I would rather have every single one of my accounts hit zero before I give in to these people. So if you want to try and affect me or affect my income by unfollowing me, I don't care.”
“I would much rather go back to a 9-5 job than let this kind of sh*t slide”
He names the names in this video. We need Americans like this
> be the left
> “Nazis are evil”
> “you should kill Nazis”
> “if you don’t agree with us you’re a Nazi”
> “Nazis should be killed”
> “Charlie Kirk is a Nazi”
*Charlie gets assassinated*
> “oh no! That’s not what we meant!!”
Fuck off
Conservatives say that guns are for sport, hunting, and self defense because that’s what they use them for.
Liberals say that guns are for killing people because that’s what they use them for.
R.I.P. Charlie Kirk
I didn't know Charlie personally. But he did send me a kind message last year. "I love all people" is what he said. If that is any indication of who the man was, then this country has lost someone special today.
Partisan politics did not stand in the way of him paying me a compliment, and it should not stand in the way of mourning him either.
We cannot become a society where expressing political views, even controversial ones, leads to violence. Whatever you think of his politics, Charlie was a decent man, a patriot, and a brave defender of his values. My heart goes out to his wife and his kids.
“I wish it need not happen in my time”
“So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.”
I hope I'm wrong.
But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever.
Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past.
I didn't feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump's life. If I had to rationalise why I didn't, I guess it's because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful.
But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else.
Charlie's death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don't pray often. I am praying for them tonight.
But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds.
I hope I'm wrong.