11-03-26

The episode opens with Ted walking through the Learjet crash near Palm Beach, drawing on conversations with two professional pilots with over 30,000 flight hours each. He explains how severe updraft forces and wing icing at 35,000 feet likely tore the horizontal stabilizer and elevator from the aircraft, producing a 32,000-foot-per-minute descent with no recovery possible. Ted presents this as his analysis; the NTSB investigation is ongoing.