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There's been some important updates in the investigation into the cause of that

Palm Beach Learjet 60 plane crash.

And this morning, the co -pilot was identified by her family

and did parts disintegrate off this Learjet 60 before it even crashed.

And so the big news that came out this morning was

that the family of the co -pilot confirmed that the co -pilot was their daughter, Natalia Filgueriras.

I hope I pronounced that right.

But she got her pilot's license at age 17

and has logged 1300 hours so far yeah

so interesting history about her this is where natalia went to high school right here local to me

this is about 20 minutes from my house she attended west boca raton community high school

and at age 17 you know they have an aviation academy program here

she actually got her pilot's license at age 17

so she got her pilot's license before she even got her driver's license i like being different than everyone

so to me I think it's like cool

that well like it's not really an opportunity I kind of just didn't do it

and this is how it ended up

but I think it's kind of cool some people think that it's like weird because I can fly planes but I

can't drive a car I mean I can

but a lot of people think it's funny I think it's funny

and I now want my license really bad the best news

the school district paid for Natalia to get her private pilot's license through the Aviation Academy.

The academy has 125 students from freshmen to seniors.

So I visited her social media account here on threads.

So this is her account.

And some early reports were saying that, you know, she's posted all of her piloting activities and stuff like that.

And a beautiful woman too.

What a shame.

And so So there's something I wanted to point out to you here, which was kind of interesting that I found.

So in March of 2025 here, she went back to her old high school to share her experiences and answer aviation questions.

So here she is talking to the current wave of students at the West Boca Community High School.

Now, Skymatics, Florida, sent one of their drones up this morning and got some second day information here, an update for us there's the crater

and this is just totally amazing there that's actually utilities i believe public utilities

and the plane is inside this puddle at the bottom there of the crater

so they'll have to get that water out first

and man just look at that look how the debris went everywhere there

so people were saying well we don't see any debris

but look it's on top of the trailers at the mobile home park

and it's all over there i mean it's just everywhere

you go there's just little pieces of it that's all

now a number of you have noticed on my previous video on this palm beach learjet crash from last night

you saw my thumbnail and you said hey jeff you know what it looks from that thumbnail

and also from the freeze frames from the dash cam video like the plane's tail wing is missing

now the tail wing is is what lay people call it it's actually called a horizontal stabilizer

and so that appears to be missing from my thumbnail and

so this is what people were focusing on

and they go hey you know right here along the tail is supposed to be

that horizontal stabilizer so i'm going to overlay next to it here

what it should look like on a regular jet i'll try to scale it to be around the same size

and so this is the part

that everybody says looks like it's missing of course

i did do a lot of processing on this screenshot from the dash cam

but i i boosted the saturation i did all sorts of tricks with the brightness and contrast

and you can see like you don't even see the left wing even though we know it's on there

but let's go take a look at it on the unchanged actual unfiltered dash cam video

and by the way this was also brought up at the ntsb press conference at about 1 30

that just wrapped up a few minutes ago.

So check this out.

Yes, sir.

David O 'Brien, New York Times.

Is there any indication that the plane's control surfaces like the horizontal stabilizer may have come off

and been compromised in that end part?

They may have.

We do have some evidence that there was some breakup of the aircraft before impact.

We're still seeking to determine that.

So as we look at a close -up shot of it here,

these are the horizontal stabilizers that people think are missing wing off of the tail.

Now, some people call this the tail wing, but it's actually called the horizontal stabilizer.

So we want to take a look at it

and run it step by step through those couple of frames

that would show us whether or not these were present on the plane.

Okay, so this should help us identify really whether

or not those horizontal stabilizers were there or not on the plane when it crashed.

So here it is.

I've got it set to just before it hit the ground.

And we want to advance frame by frame.

And I want to show you a phenomenon here

that might lead you to think that there wasn't stabilizers there when they might be there.

Now, we still don't know 100%.

Notice how right here you can see the right wing, but you can't see the left wing

so i had a number of people comment saying look i can see sky right there

so i don't see any horizontal stabilizer

which it should be right here on the end of the the tail there

so remember there's a lot of blur

but the point is they're saying they can see the the clouds

and the sky behind it so it must not be there

but look you could say the same thing about this left wing

but we know the left wing is there

because watch this see i advance it one frame

and there you can actually see the left wing you see

that you can see both wings whereas

if i push it right back up it's not there you know

you have a lot of artifacts from the camera the motion blurring

and let's check this out too so you can see

when it comes down and i'm maintaining that this shaded square you see

that little square right there i'm maintaining that

that could be the horizontal stabilizer right there

because watch how it's not there the minute before this is not artifacts from the clouds

or anything or compression algorithms so watch

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when we move the plane back up okay keep your eye on

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that square okay so keep your eye on

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that square right there where the point of the cursor is

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and you'll see it disappear when i move the frame to in reverse to make the plane go back up.

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So I tend to agree with the NTSB and everybody else

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that it does indeed look like the horizontal stabilizers were ripped off.

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So the problem here is if you lose that horizontal stabilizer and it gets torn off of your tail,

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that's like the feathers on the tip of the arrow.

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That's what gives you your stability.

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But even worse, what might logically happen now is without it controlling the pitch of your nose, your center of gravity shifts forward a little bit

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and the nose starts pointing down like this so

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that I think explains probably a good portion of

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that completely almost vertical dive now because without

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that stability control to keep you level no amount of pulling back on

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that yoke is going to help you out of a situation this bad

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so that's why I think in this storm the turbulence might

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have played much more of a role here than the ice on the wings

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I'm sure the ice on the wings didn't help but

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if what we think is correct now I think

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that the root cause here might actually just be

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that the turbulence of all of that sudden air rushing upward like this in the middle of that rapidly forming storm,

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that probably tore the horizontal stabilizer right off of the tail.

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So probably the combination of the ice on the wings maybe helped it lose lift, maybe a little bit or maybe all.

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This could be an all or nothing deal.

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Then you start plunging because of that and you hit an overspeed condition and that tears off the horizontal stabilizer.

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Now, the folks from the My Radar Weather Radar channel had put together this animation here

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that shows just exactly how fast this little storm cell that was about three to five miles wide, how fast it developed.

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So let me show you the importance of what it's showing us here and how quickly these anvil cloud formations can occur.

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So here they were seeing the cell top was at 37 ,000 feet at 1237.

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So that's 14 minutes before the crash, 14, 15 minutes.

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So it's already at 37 .7.

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Now, this isn't going to change, but watch the cloud formation itself.

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Watch the core of the storm.

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And you can see how small it really was comparatively

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and then as they're getting closer

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and closer you can see it's starting to rise up now you see

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that see how rapidly the height of it is shooting up there

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and it gets higher and higher there now so that now

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and they didn't really get very granular about updating this

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but at 1248 two minutes before the crash they're already showing it at 41 000 feet

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so look at this let me back

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it up from 1248 to 1243 in five minutes time it went from 33 000 to 41 000 feet

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so that was about 8 000 feet in five minutes time the height of this storm

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so imagine the imagine the famous volcano mount vesuvius exploding upward with lava and that's sort of what's happening here this

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This storm is taking millions of gallons of water and sucking it straight up at a very rapid rate.

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And the plane just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time

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and flew right into it so that they would become instant ice on your wings.

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But also, it might have been the turbulence from all of this wind rushing upwards like this

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that could have torn off the horizontal stabilizers off of the tail.

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So here they were showing that this rapidly growing convective cell rose 17 ,000 feet over the course of 25 minutes.

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It just very rapidly developed.

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So the thing that still perplexes me, I know most pilots typically want to dodge any type of rainstorm,

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thunderstorm like this, but I do have to question is

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if they were flying like this don't they have any kind of radar instrument on their plane

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that would have shown them this

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and they could have just gone either side

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we're only talking three to five miles wide now here's another valuable eyewitness video

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that surfaced today so this was taken just seconds after the plane crashed

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and you can see here that it pretty much crashed,

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I would say, right in lane number three and the bike lane of Military Trail heading southbound.

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And it also took out the sidewalk as well and the number two lane.

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And right now, these cars are driving on the only lane available, which is the number one lane of the southbound lanes.

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And even then, they're driving over a damaged road, which I'll show you in a minute.

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But it was very nerve -wracking for me to see this because there could have been a sinkhole developing there.

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So they were taking their life in their hands, I think, driving over that area.

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And people were driving by and filming it right from their cars before the police arrived, not even knowing what it was.

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And then, of course, there's always going to be your conspiracy theory.

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And by the way, I don't even call it conspiracy theory.

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I call it conspiracy fabrication or even much more appropriately, instigators.

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because there's people that just go around the internet on every video leaving comments

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and and disguised questions like how did they clean up the debris field

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so fast how come there's no debris how do we know

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that there was even a plane crash blah blah blah all of this nonsense

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so this is probably one of the clearest witness videos

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that were shot yesterday right after the crash

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so the people in the mobile home park

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that you can see there's all sorts of particles and debris

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that landed all over the cars

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and it busted their windshields now there weren't a whole lot of large pieces

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but you're about to see a few

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that look like they're maybe i don't know 12 inches or

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so there's one that looked like it was almost two feet

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but most of them are just shard little pieces of metal

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and just many of the pieces i'd say the vast majority of them were basically nuts

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and bolts that size you can see look particles everywhere all over this parking lot

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so he's finding some small amounts of chunks of metal there

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and this is all immediately behind the impact area the impact crater there was a good sized piece

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that looked like it was a good three or four feet

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and so they're just basically walking around between the buildings

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and remember a lot of the debris has landed on the

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roofs of all of these mobile homes here in this park

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and look you can see you're seeing good amounts of trunks right

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there i mean it's basically everywhere it just came raining down on them

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so they're pointing to all the little smaller pieces everywhere

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and they even said that there was some found around the corner at like the baseball field so there's a, bring it out a little bit.

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See, because here's

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Military Trail, and here's 10th Avenue North.

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And so the impact was right here.

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It actually struck right here on the bike path in front of this light pole right here.

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And so it actually, the crater took up these two lanes plus the bike lane

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and the sidewalk right up to the pole here.

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So everything came raining down from there.

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And it was around the corner over here on these baseball diamonds where they found some debris.

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And I even saw aerial photographs of debris landing here along the canal as well.

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I don't know what happened, Mommy.

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I think a plane fell from the sky.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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what was that what is that mom stop

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Well, what was it, Tanya?

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The gas line looks like it exploded.

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The gas line?

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No, it wasn't a plane, it was the pilot.

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There's no way to breathe this stuff.

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No, it's not good to breathe this stuff.

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But Tanya, what was that light in the sky?

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Mami!

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It's the gas, the gas, it exploded with the gas.

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What the hell?

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What the fuck?

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I saw a red light.

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I don't know what it was.

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stay right here stay right there

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mami yo no se que fue lo que paso mami yo no se

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now the one thing that bothers me about all of these air crashes

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and the videos and everything is that there's always all of these internet trolls

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that come on there

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and they always make the same stupid comment oh dei i'm sure you've probably seen it once

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or twice at least on some kind of video

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but it happens on all the major collapses and it's like it's just getting old already.

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And I always question, you know, the maturity of these types of people.

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And do they really have nothing better to do with their time than to go around

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and lay insulting comments against women like this?

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So here's the part that you need to understand is

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that whether you're a man or a woman and you're going to become a pilot, they all have to go through the exact same test.

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All right.

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If you make a mistake, the FAA can yank your card, whether you're a man or a woman more men have crashed planes

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and helicopters than women and even since the whole DEI alleged you know started I doubt

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that this goal was part of any kind of DEI hiring program

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but when people are immature like this and go around

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and just level all sorts of judgments like this against people it just shows a complete lack of respect

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but anyway if there's any more updates on this I will be sure to let you know

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and if you didn't check out the previous night's video on this crash, check this one out here.

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And don't forget to view my other one here on the Amazon plane crash update.

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So thank you for joining us and we'll see all of you on the next one.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learjet Crash: Missing "Tail Wing"? Copilot Revealed”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: wing, plane, stabilizer, horizontal. This video has 245 sentences and 2899 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:18. The speaker talks at a natural 168 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
horizontal adjective	/ˌhoɹəˈzɑn.təl/	Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
tail noun	/ˈteɪ̯l/	An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something.
debris noun	/ˈdɛbɹi/	Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
cloud noun	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
tear verb	/tɛɹ/	To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
rapidly adverb	/ˈɹæpɪdli/	With speed; in a rapid manner.
crater noun	/ˈkɹeɪ.tɚ/	A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
conspiracy noun	/kənˈspɪɹəsi/	An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
radar noun	/ˈɹeɪˌdɑɹ/	In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves…
aviation noun	/ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/	The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
dash noun	/ˈdæʃ/	Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
explode verb	/ɪkˈsploʊd/	To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
turbulence noun	/ˈtɝ.bjə.ləns/	The state or fact of being turbulent or agitated; tempestuousness, disturbance.
rush verb	/ɹʌʃ/	To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
stability noun	/stəˈbɪlɪti/	The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go around verb		To move or spread from person to person.
back up verb		To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
tear off verb	/teɹ ɑf/	To rip away from; to pull a piece from forcibly.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
clean up verb		To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
close up verb	/kləʊzˈʌp/	To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
come down verb		To descend, fall down, collapse.
come off verb		To become detached.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

We're still seeking to determine that.
That's what gives you your stability.
I don't know what it was.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	There's been · has logged · have noticed
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was identified · was also brought · been compromised
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	here, which was · available, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 47 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, they're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, thread /ˈθɹɛd/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, feather /ˈfɛðə/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, dash /ˈdæʃ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: horizontal /ˌhoɹəˈzɑn.təl/, conspiracy /kənˈspɪɹəsi/, aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, stability /stəˈbɪlɪti/, utility /juːˈtɪlɪti/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like horizontal, tail, debris.

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