Saw this today for my recommended videos. The video is 3 years old.
I’ve never paid much attention to Learjets, but it appears these things, especially the 60 model, are not very safe.
Very thin margins for safe and stable flight at high altitudes.
It appears the Florida aircraft may have stalled in the turbulence and entered “Mach tuck” rapidly, in which the air flow is too disrupted to recover.
As the news continues to roll out, these things may quickly become a high-supply, low-demand item, with rapidly falling sticker prices.
I think that flown within the performance envelopes, Lears are safe airplanes and have a good record of being a safe business jet. That said, they are a high-performance aircraft comparable to many military jets and invite performance-oriented pilots to push the limits. Even so, there have only been five fatal commuter jet crashes since 2010.
There is a short-haul turbo-prop airplane, the Cessna Caravan, that is used extensivly as a short-haul commercial carrier that is certified for flight into known icing conditions and is also notoriously bad for icing up in bad weather. A Caravan recently crashed due to icing in Alaska with multiple fatalities.