美国宇航局局长周一在社交媒体X上发文，针对网上对周日在佛罗里达州南部坠毁的庞巴迪Learjet 60私人飞机副驾驶的批评发声。美国宇航局局长、同时也是飞行员的贾里德·艾萨克曼表示，他以个人身份发言，是为了回应坠机事件引发的一些反应。该事故造成九人死亡。当局尚未公布坠机原因，飞行员和乘客身份也未公开，但一段女性副驾驶在坠机前发出的求救呼叫录音在网上引发了反响。
The leader of NASA is standing up against online criticism of the copilot in the Learjet 60 private plane that crashed in South Florida on Sunday. Jared Isaacman, the NASA administrator who is also a pilot, said he was speaking out in a personal capacity to address some of the reactions to the crash, which killed nine people. Authorities have not said what caused the crash, and the identities of the pilots and the passengers have not been released, but a recording of a female copilot's mayday calls in the moments preceding the crash sparked reactions online.
艾萨克曼在X上的帖子中写道：“看到关于Lear 60坠机事件的评论，从导弹袭击到DEI，再到批评这位可怜女士最后的无线电呼叫，我觉得有必要发帖。我最不安的是最后这一点。”
"I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman's final radio calls," Isaacman wrote in an X post on Monday. "That last part is what I find most troubling."
他继续写道：“她是副驾驶（SIC），虽然作为良好机组资源管理的一部分，她有权指出错误，但她只是在履行职责，在可怕的情况下一直与空中交通管制部门通话直到最后。她很可能在那些呼叫中的许多之前就知道自己将会死亡。”
"She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die," he continued.
艾萨克曼表示，他理解公众的关注，但许多因素仍然未知，包括“飞机的维修历史、是否存在结构故障、任何故障是否由湍流、超速或过度操纵引起，或者驾驶舱内发生的一切”。他还表示，包机行业经常雇佣需要与持有航空公司资质的飞行员一起积累经验的早期职业商业飞行员，并补充说副驾驶仍具备必要的培训和资质。
Isaacman said he understood the public interest but that many factors remained unknown, including "the aircraft's maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit." He also said that the charter industry often hires early-career commercial pilots who need to gain experience alongside airline-qualified pilots, adding the copilot would still have the necessary training and qualifications.
他补充道：“让人们调查、学习并分享事实。对逝者及其怀念他们的家人保持尊重。”
"Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories," he added.
飞行雷达24的数据显示，该飞机周日从奥斯汀起飞，飞往巴哈马途中进入佛罗里达州，在坠地前大约一分钟内下降了27000英尺。
The plane had departed from Austin and was en route to the Bahamas when it entered Florida on Sunday. It descended 27,000 feet in about a minute before crashing into the ground, data from FlightRadar24 showed.
美国国家运输安全委员会（NTSB）官员表示，天气是此次坠机事故调查的重点。周日，佛罗里达州南部遭遇大范围雷暴天气，航空气象数据显示有大雨、能见度低和中度湍流。退休的达美航空飞行员马克·斯蒂芬斯对《商业内幕》表示，天气可能发挥了作用，并警告不要急于将责任归咎于飞行员。“大家都在对飞行员下结论；这就像赛后诸葛亮。‘哦，是她的错，’”斯蒂芬斯说。“简直是一派胡言。而且她甚至不是机长。”
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board have said that weather is a major focus of the investigation into the crash. South Florida experienced widespread thunderstorms on Sunday, with aviation weather data showing heavy rain, low visibility, and moderate turbulence. Mark Stephens, a retired Delta Air Lines pilot, told Business Insider that weather could have played a role and warned against jumping to place blame on the pilots. "Everybody's jumping to conclusions about the pilot; it's like Monday morning quarterbacking. 'Oh, it's her fault,'" Stephens said. "Well, that's a load of crap. And she wasn't even the captain."