# Learjet 60 Crash in Palm Beach: Impact, Debris and NTSB Investigation - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118048128117231990 - Source account: [@JG_CSTT](https://x.com/JG_CSTT) - Source language: English - Duration: 2:58 - Published: 2026-11-06 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation ## Transcript [0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=1) The NTSB flew drones over the site of the November 1st, 2026 Learjet 60 crash in Palm Beach County, Florida. [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=9) There's a water-filled crater about twenty feet across and a pale fan of crushed lime rock and asphalt sprayed west across the lawn. [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=18) There are thousands of bright specks, and those are pieces of the airplane. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=23) What you won't find is a wing, a tail, or a fuselage. [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=27) To show the moment no camera caught, I matched every drone shot in 3D. [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=32) The before shots are AI-generated to follow the same camera moves. [0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=37) Everything that happens after that is physics. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=39) About a hundred thousand pieces of rock, asphalt, and concrete aimed to land where the drone footage shows debris landed. [0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=47) The jet hit at about six hundred and forty miles an hour, steeply heading west. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=52) That's three hundred and sixty million joules of motion, about as much as a hundred and ninety pounds of TNT. [0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=59) Almost all of it went down into crushing the airframe and into crushing and shoving the wet ground. [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=66) So how is that utility pole still standing twenty feet from the center of the crater? [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=71) The jet never hit it. What hit the pole was the spray: sand, rock, and pieces of aluminum, many smaller than two inches. [1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=80) Even at three hundred miles an hour, a two-inch piece carries about ninety joules, less than a fastball. [1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=86) The whole jet carried four million times more. [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=90) The pole was sandblasted and the crater undermined its footing. [1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=94) NTSB crews had to remove it as unstable, but nothing hit it hard enough to knock it down. [1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=100) Some people say it was a missile or that it was shot down or that it was aimed at Mar-a-Lago. [1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=106) Ten minutes before the crash, over the Everglades, seventy-seven miles away, the co-pilot texted, "I've got turbulence. I've got ice." [1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=114) Later, at thirty-five thousand feet, the jet did point toward Palm Beach for about a minute. [2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=120) That's also the way to the Bahamas, where it was headed. [2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=123) Then came the dive, a tightening spiral that turned away. [2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=127) At impact, the jet was five and a half miles from Mar-a-Lago, pointed west, and an explosion throws debris evenly in every direction. [2:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=136) Here, almost all of it went one way: west, the way the jet was flying, within ten degrees of the radar track. [2:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=144) The NTSB says it has found no evidence connecting the crash to the Secret Service. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=150) Why the jet dived is still the NTSB's question. [2:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=153) The ice, the turbulence, the speed, the tail. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=157) But where the plane went is no mystery. The NTSB says the major wreckage is down in that crater, under the rainwater, and crews are pumping it out so investigators can dig. [2:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=168) The heaviest parts, like the engines, would have gone in deepest. [2:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSQyi6fkgazm/en/learjet-60-crash-in-palm-beach-impact-debris-and-ntsb-investigation?t=172) The rest is spread across that lawn in pieces too small to look like an airplane.