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MN | They ended up in a thunderstorm. That's what finished it.
The Lear is rated to something like 51,000 feet.
They asked for climb up over the storm. Sounds like too late.
Supercooled rain droplets pushed up out of the top of the storm caused incredibly fast ice buildup. Probably faster than they could 1. notice, and 2. react.
They either were unable to keep climbing, or stalled, or both. Either way they ended up in the top of an incredibly violent storm.
Oversped, lost parts of the tailplane, and that was the end. Elevator parts were not with the plane.
My speculation on what happened.
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? about that Lear jet crash.
