Date: November 2nd, 2026 2:14 PM Author: a New York Times analysis of Reddit posts
She fell 25k feet in a minute and was considerably calm given the circumstances the whole time. Her final summation that they were out of time implies she was working for control the whole time.
She also was determined to be a commercial pilot and was doing great career wise for age 20. Freak accident.
Hard to believe she’s not in the top 50th percentile of pilots in similar situations.
Date: November 2nd, 2026 4:11 PM Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.)
CR. This isn’t Sully dealing with a bird strike while gliding peacefully. An uncontrolled dive like that would have been physically excruciating.
I’m just referring to her composure, not whatever caused the crash. The lack of remotely high quality theories is interesting (“flew into a thunderstorm” is not in itself an adequate explanation for a hang glider falling out of the sky, let alone a Learjet). A little over half of commercial aviation crashes are pilot error, and that figure is substantially higher for general aviation, which is actually pretty remarkable when you consider that maintenance is *much* worse in GA. (In general, GA is actually a lot more dangerous than people realize.) I get the impression that this setup was kind of midway between GA and the regionals in professionalism but I dunno.