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lol deregulated air travel and inadequate air traffic control! let's goooooo!
edit: makes sense, hours old account with dozens of comments that are controversial on purpose. what do you even gain from this on lemmy? anyway, comment still stands because people do legitimately have this opinion
original comment: doesn't have anything to do with either of those things. please don't go spouting about things that you have no knowledge of.
this was a business jet that presumably got caught by the elements before losing control. they were in icing conditions and asked to climb higher to get out of it. and ATC cleared them to climb. not even 5 seconds later the plane calls an emergency as they enter an uncontrollable dive. there's nothing ATC could've done, and the weather is impartial, not political
A few pilots in the aviation subreddit speculated it was icing that caused sudden loss of control. Not everything bad has to have a political cause. Sometimes it's just randomly bad weather for 2 minutes at exactly the wrong time.
I'm just repeating what I heard. The aircraft was maxed out on passengers, like crammed in there. They were in a hurry, skirted a storm system too close, flew into a little subsidiary cell, started icing, and the Learjet is apparently quite unforgiving in that set of circumstances especially at full load. Stalled out, oversped, lost the horizontal stabilizer, the end.