Claims extracted
16
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
25%
4 of 16 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
119
Other
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Investigators looking into the fatal crash of a Learjet in Florida have said they found pieces of the horizontal tail section more than a mile from where the aircraft made impact, killing all nine aboard and leaving a fiery crater in the ground.
asserted
aircraft → look → ground
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Tom Chapman said during a news conference on Tuesday that the discovery of tail parts broken into three pieces confirms the plane was breaking apart before it hit the ground.
asserted
it → say → ground
The official said the plane wouldn’t have been able to pull up from its nose dive without the tail intact, and he was not sure it would have been effective even if it was complete because of the aircraft’s extreme rate of descent.
asserted
it → say → descent
The jet was flying from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas on Sunday when it appears to have flown into a thunderstorm at 35,000ft, causing – according to radio transmissions from co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras – icing on the jet and turbulence, causing it to climb and fall by more than 700ft before it began to dive.
uncertain
it → fly → ft
In harrowing communications, Filgueiras, 20, told air traffic controllers that the plane was descending at 8,000ft per minute, then 10,000ft per minute.
asserted
plane → tell → minute
During one of her final transmissions she said: “Declare an emergency 722 Bravo Delta, we are in an overspeed condition descending 20,000ft per minute.”
asserted
we → say → minute
Seconds later, it crashed in to the ground near a trailer park and exploded into a fireball at the intersection of Military Trail and Cresthaven Boulevard in Palm Beach.
asserted
it → crash → Beach
The victims of the crash have been identified by relatives as technology entrepreneur Adam Robinson; his wife, Helen Sharp; and their two young children.
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victims → identify → Robinson
Family friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr also died in the crash, as did the family’s nanny, Anita Maria Cetina.
asserted
nanny → die → crash
The pilot of the plane has been identified as 55-year-old Jeff Gregory by his employer, East Coast Jets, a charter aviation company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
asserted
pilot → identify → Allentown
“Our prayers go out to Jeff’s family, his fellow crew member, the passengers and everyone affected by this heart breaking tragedy,” the company said in a statement.
asserted
company → go → statement
In the NTSB briefing on Tuesday, Chapman encouraged anyone living in the area to leave any pieces that may look as if they belong to the aircraft alone and to contact the NTSB or local authorities.
uncertain
they → encourage → NTSB
He said the NTSB would work to lay out the recovered pieces of the plane in a way that “remakes” the aircraft in order to determine what may have occurred.
uncertain
what → say → aircraft
Filgueiras reportedly texted her boyfriend before the situation turned critical: “I’ve got turbulence, I’ve got ice.”
uncertain
I → texte → ice
Chapman said on Monday that weather would be a key focus of the investigation.
asserted
weather → say → investigation
A preliminary report describing what happened will be released in about a month, but it will likely take more than a year to determine the exact cause of the crash.
asserted
it → describe → crash
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