Diet Guru, Actor Among 7 Presumed Dead In Small Plane Crash

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Diet Guru, Actor Among 7 Presumed Dead In Small Plane Crash

[richardsnyder]

The real tragedy is all of the tax exempt church donations used to pay for the private jet and a whole bunch of plastic surgery went down the drink so to speak.

[davelattimer]

A luxurious life cant save you from death, at the end you will have to meet your maker just like everyone else

[lauriesuecragin-klammt]

HOLY vomitous batballs.
That horrible hair and makeup routine was definitely a killer in itself.

[eparigon]

calling her a diet guru is so disingenuous. she was a scammer.

[chrisnnooirhjightytbrown]

She encouraged child abuse! She even lied and said that wasn't her voice when she was secretly being recorded. Those poor children didn't deserve that from those evil brain washed followers that she doted on during their trail. Btw ...There's no way Tammy Faye Baker died twice! 😳

[ZenZill]

Small private aircraft are like the bane of the 'rich', the second people get cash they always hop in these death traps and die.

[redwoods]

No one on the jet was licensed to pilot it. That's been reported. Her husband had just received his pilot's license but was not licensed to fly the jet.

[libirdinowski]

I guess her god didn't want her to gain anymore money from playing all those people for years 😂😂

[adamhenry]

Im never flying a private jet so many people have died on it.

[wdh]

The wife looked was a diet guru? Sad they died though.

[centigradzcentigradz]

When this news came out I only noticed the actor. Didn't realize that his wife is the scam artist lady.

[bardamoszecronstarog]

All that money 💵 could buy them a private jet 🛩, yet not a million bucks could help them escape death. 💀

[dvskid]

Imagine swindling millions of dollars out of innocent people in the name of god only to be judged

[Littlebit]

My condolences to their loved ones but anyone trusting her with improving health or appearance wasn’t a good judge of character just from looking at her!

[dandemaio]

And not a licensed pilot on board...SMH...I guess you can teach Tarzan to fly through the air on a vine but not a jet...

[scarvymccargo]

The Remnant Fellowship was decapitated. Behold the hand of the Lord!

[KB-kefi]

At 0:11....picture of the plane. I didn't know Nashville had a rocky mountain range in the desert there.

[happyinparis]

Her hair needed to lose weight. She was a charlatan.

[katel]

I clicked because I thought this was an SNL parody. Good Lord, that hair and makeup 🤣

[robertmack]

First of all, my condolences to the families - may their loved ones rest in peace. Perhaps it is best to withhold judgement until the NTSB releases their report. From '75-'78 I flew the Citation (normally it was a 500 but sometimes a 501SP). I'm an old man so please forgive me if my numbers are off - I looked at a video of this tragedy and listened to the communications between the tower and the pilot. (Also, I don't know anything about the owners, passengers, the pilot - his qualifications nor the disposition of his medical status). I would imagine the aircraft was being operated under FAR 91. This aircraft under FAA regs would have required the PIC to have a Recurrent Training/Flight Review every twelve months (plus a month grace period). If he was flying with a Commercial license his medical exam would be required every twelve months (maybe a month grace period ? with no EKG. If he was flying with an ATPL (Airline Transport Pilot License) his medical would be required every six months with an EKG once per year. On the video his departure seemed normal - at 900' he was at 190 kts. His clearance limit was 3, 000 which he acknowledged - the ADS-B showed 2, 900' - in the turn, however, it seemed he was accelerating (speed limit within an airport traffic area would have been 200 kts). ATC instructed him to climb and maintain 15-thousand but I never heard an acknowledgement (I could have missed it though). What troubles me is the last broadcast the pilot made referenced 3, 000 and you could hear the audio warning which I believe was the overspeed. If you watched the ADS-B read-out his altitude varied from 2, 900 back down to 1, 600 up to maybe ? 3, 200? before the tragic descent. His speed varied from 170 knots to over 300 knots. With the curvature of the Citation's windshield and it's chemical composition, below 14, 000 feet the speed limitation was 262 knots (bird-strike limitation) and above 14, 000' it was (?) 289 knots (which is why I believe it was an audio speed warning although the Lear's cabin altitude warning has some similarities). So while the aircraft had rolled out on a 130 heading with speed accelerating and altitude deviations occurring, something happened. I was inaudibly telling the pilot "Get those power-levers back". Many questions in my mind: 1. How long was this trip (how long did they pack for)? 2. Maybe I read where it was configured for eight seats? Normal config was (I think again) for a club seating arrangement plus another pax seat behind the co-pilot's seat (across from a small galley) but then you would have a passenger in the right seat if it was five in the back plus the pilot's seat (that makes seven altogether unless they had taken the little galley out and had another seat there. 3. How much fuel was on for the flight? KMQY - KPBI (great circle the flight would be around 2 hours although flying a Standard Terminal Arrival Route (STAR) would probably be 2:10 to 2:15. I checked fuel prices at both Smyrna and PBI - comparable unless the owner had a huge discount in Smyrna and if so did he top-off to avoid buying maybe 300 gallons in PBI? (The Citation's range was around 3 1/2 hours if I remember right so he was going to have to uplift some for the return flight). 4. BAGGAGE: Behind the club seats is a small baggage area but you can also put luggage in the nose baggage compartments. These compartments have a door on each side of the nose (aft of the avionics bay and forward of the windscreens) - would it have been possible for one of those baggage doors not being secured and locked? Most certainly - so if one of those doors came loose and flew off the hinges, now you have an issue with it either hitting the windscreen or possibly an engine or possibly the horizontal or vertical stabilizer. I just remembered something else from another lifetime ago: I know of one (and maybe there was a second incident) where the pilot had locked that nose baggage door, got distracted, and forgot to take his keys out - NO, I'm sorry, the other guy had left his keys in the door-latch - boss showed up, the door was closed with the keys still in the lock and with both incidents the keys came out and were ingested into the engine! Anyway, if there was a full fuel-load, six passengers plus pilot (three ladies but four men), baggage for how many days and perhaps how much space did the carry-ons take up - could they have exceeded the MGTO (max gross take-off) weight and possibly have restricted the accessibility of the Emergency Exit over the wing? (The main entrance door can serve as an emergency egress but I doubt it would have been useful). So many questions and such a useless tragedy - again, my condolences to the families for their loss.