Somewhat common. It depends on what the insurance company and/or family wants to do.
Might be a possibility
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Landing lights on a 55 are mounted to the MLG. I'm not saying the gear was either up or down when this happened, but positive rate, gear up followed by flap retraction seems common in that phase of flight. Maybe it was an errant Aeronca but trying to speculate from a chair and nothing more than ring doorbell footage seems foolish. I've worked on a lot of Lears over the years and the 55 always struck me as a big hat with no cattle. It's not a hot rod, it's like a '77 Chevelle. It's a big girl, once you get it going with less than enough power it'll eventually go pretty fast, the suspension and brakes are woefully ill equipped to either change course or stop. I don't know what happened in Philly but I trust the NTSB to find out what caused the accident and they are not afraid to broadcast their findings to anyone willing to listen, so I'll wait patiently until they put out a final report.
Your shtick is tired.
It probably didn't have a FDR because it wasn't required.
It doesn’t have one.
That's shocking. But it probably wouldn't be working either if it did have one lol. I would assume the functionality of black boxes are supposed to be checked at regular intervals.
Not shocking at all, it is not required for that airplane.
It should be.
