NASA administrator defends 20-year-old Learjet co-pilot after Florida crash
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman took to his personal social media account Nov. 2 to defend the female co-pilot of the Learjet that crashed near Palm Beach, Florida. The private jet, bound from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas, plummeted into the ground Nov. 1 near Greenacres and exploded into a fireball. All nine people onboard were killed. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but heavy rainfall and thunderstorms were occurring in the area at the time the jet went down, forecaster AccuWeather said in a statement. Moments before the crash, a person in the cockpit said the crew was…
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[Claude] Both reports cover the same Learjet crash near Palm Beach, Florida, one as a follow-up identifying the 20-year-old co-pilot and the other as a family-confirmed death report with crash details, with no
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