Looks like landing gear failed on Vince Neil's Learjet at Scottsdale airport, causing the crash
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1889130590475055486
Pete Hegseth tells truth about Fox News colleague Jennifer Griffin - she hates Trump
Pete Hegseth has hit out at a Fox News journalist who posted a letter sent to the defense secretary from Congress questioning a home repairs bill.
Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, 56, posted a letter sent to Hegseth from Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, which asked the government official to explain why he required more than $130,000 for maintenance work on his government-furnished house.
Included in the bill was a $49,000 request for an 'emergency' paint job.
Hours after the document was posted to X, Hegseth aggressively pushed back on the report saying it was 'fake news,' alongside the claim Griffin 'hates Trump'.
Hegseth, 44, also claimed the behavior from Griffin was 'not surprising,' adding that she and Democrats are the 'same thing.'
The US Secretary of Defense claimed all the repairs he requested for the government-furnished home were going to happen regardless of who moved in next.
'Any/all house repairs were going to happen no matter who was moving in - and were all initiated by DoD,' he wrote on X.
Hegseth added an additional jab at the reporter from his former network, claiming the Democrats and Griffin 'don't care about facts' because 'they're just Trump haters.'
As defense secretary, Hegseth is granted the option to live in government housing, however, it is more common for people in such positions to opt to live in private housing, according to Military.com.
The former defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, lived in his own home in Great Falls, Virginia.
However, since Hegseth has taken the opportunity to live in the home, Democrats have demanded he justify why he needs the government-provided home, why it needs to be improved and how much he plans to pay in rent.
'We know that many service members and their families currently live in unacceptable housing conditions including houses with mold, lead paint, and other hazards,' the letter penned on February 7 reads.
'What commitment will you make to provide service members with a similarly high quality of housing for themselves and their families?'
As seen in the report, the total cost comes out to $137,297 to improve the 4,000-square-foot government-furnished home.
In their letter, Democrats pointed out that Hegseth will earn an annual income of $246,000 in addition to the millions of dollars he already has from his former career as a Fox News host.
Democrats are now asking Hegseth to answer their questions by February 21.
The request has become increasingly politicized due to the fact that President Donald Trump and his 'first buddy' Elon Musk have been making drastic changes to the federal government with aim to reduce federal spending.
Musk and Trump are attempting to place thousands of federal workers on administrative leave and plan to cut many others that they believe are unnecessary - all in a widespread attempt at saving money and making American taxpayer dollars 'more meaningful.'
The president-elect tasked the Tesla CEO and Vivek Ramaswamy with cutting trillions of dollars in federal spending in the coming years using the newly developed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - which Musk leads.
And the pair have already been hard at work injecting their influence in to politics.
House DOGE Caucus Co-Chair Aaron Bean, exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com some of the most egregious government waste projects federal workers are approving - many at massive costs to taxpayers.
'We're giving cocaine to animals to see does it turn them transsexual?' the Republican lamented to DailyMail.com over the phone.
He suggested similar government-funded studies need to be halted by DOGE.
'It just, it's the craziest thing that you would never spend your own money on. But when agencies have money to burn, they will spend money on literally everything,' Bean added.
The study in question, a decade old NIH experiment titled 'Cocaine induces state-dependent learning of sexual conditioning in male Japanese quail' to determine the patterns of birds using cocaine.
That study was given a US taxpayer-funded grant worth $875,000.
This nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded study found that cocaine use tends to lead to riskier sex - something many would say is 'common knowledge.'
A similar study to measure cocaine use in beagles was revealed by advocacy group White Coat Waste Project in recent years. That study received over $2.3 million dollars from the National Institute of Health.
Other wasteful projects in the 'Festivus' report: A $10,000 for ice skating drag queens, a $12 million Las Vegas pickleball complex project and $108,000 for on a non-functioning, long-abandoned hotel in the Caribbean - all courtesy of the US taxpayer.
The official DOGE X account also highlighted various U.S. government spending projects, many of them absurd.
'What does the U.S. Government use taxpayer dollars for? "$6.9M studying ‘smart toilets’ that recognize the user’s ‘anal print’ - $2.3M for the NIH to inject dogs with cocaine - $118,000 to study if a metal replica robot of Marvel Comics’ Thanos could really snap his fingers - $75,000 in grants on a Harvard study on lizards being blown off trees with leaf blowers,"' the statement said.
In addition to handing out grant money for ridiculous studies and remote, useless hotels, Bean told DailyMail.com other handouts, like subsidies, should be re-examined.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14376967/Pete-Hegseth-spars-Fox-Jennifer-Griffin-home-improvements.html
Manhunt after French girl, 11, who vanished on way home from school found dead in woods
A manhunt is underway after the body of an 11-year-old girl was found with stab wounds in a forest in France.
Louise Lasalle vanished while on her way home from school in Essonne, northern France, shortly before 2pm on Friday, police believe. Her parents raised the alarm when she didn’t return home from André-Maurois middle school in the town of Épinay-sur-Org.
Police have now opened a murder investigation after her body was found overnight between Friday and Saturday in the Bois des Templiers woodlands.
More than 120 national police officers were dispatched alongside horses, drones, dogs and a helicopter over the weekend, to comb through the three hectares of forest near where the schoolgirl’s body was found, BFMTV reported.
Devastated classmates have paid tribute to Louise, with one girl telling TF1 that she was “funny, intelligent and she loved her friends, she was everything to us".
Louise was last spotted on a pedestrian crossing at the exit of the northern French town, just south of Paris.
CCTV footage from nearby cameras has shown a man wandering nearby as Louise heads towards the park on her way home. However, a source close to the investigation told Le Parisien that even if the person was following the victim, there is nothing to “affirm that this is indeed the killer”.
An autopsy at the Corbeil-Essonnes forensic institute on Saturday afternoon found that Louise was repeatedly stabbed with an object likely to be a knife, French media has cited authorities as saying.
Two people were taken into custody on Saturday in connection with the crime. BFMTV reported they were released in the evening after no evidence was found against them.
"At this stage, there is no evidence to suggest that sexual violence was committed," the Évry public prosecutor's office also stated.
The public prosecutors office has been contacted by The Independent for the latest information.
Police have now secured school routes in the towns of Longjumeau and Épinay-sur-Orge with local parents fearing for their children’s safety on their school commutes, the town announced on its Facebook page on Sunday evening.
Longjumeau authorities also thanked the parents who have been accompanying children to school following the attack to ensure their safety.
Gisèle, whose daughter is in the 5th grade at Louise’s school and had insisted she would go to school today, told Le Parisien: "I'm going to organize myself all week to make the journeys morning and evening with her and other friends.”
Another worried mother told TF1: “We're completely shocked. We're shocked. We can't imagine that this kind of thing could happen next door to us.”
A support contact has been set up for anyone in the area requiring psychological support.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/crime/louise-lasalle-murder-france-essonne-b2695302.html
Trump reveals his ‘beautiful plan’ for Gaza Strip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5eZ73UjGPk
Pam Bondi issues warning to leakers
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1888979364651417690
Tom Homan promises to ‘deal with’ with ICE leakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98COqRmfoE
Trump’s suspension of USAID has already caused loss of 35,000 jobs in Jordan
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The Trump administration’s recent decision to suspect USAID payments is reportedly already having a “devastating” effect in Jordan, according to a UAE report citing nonprofit organizations.
The National outlet reports that some 35,000 jobs have been lost as a result of the move, including both Jordanians and Americans working on projects funded by the US.
One of Jordan’s larger nonprofits is quoted in the Emirati report as saying that more than half of its budget comes from US sources and the aid suspension has affected operations “tremendously.”
The lack of funding is affecting projects covering physical and mental health, disabilities, refugees, sexual and reproductive health services, and gender-based violence protection and rehabilitation services, The National reports.
“It goes beyond the numbers. It’s a ripple effect on the whole economy,” the organization says.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-trumps-suspension-of-usaid-has-already-caused-loss-of-35000-jobs-in-jordan/
Pete Hegseth Reinstates Ban on New Transgender Service Members After 4-Year Pause Under Joe Biden
The Department of Defense has reintroduced a ban on new transgender service members in the United States military, effective immediately.
President Donald Trump, 78, previously directed the Pentagon to make a plan for reviving his controversial first-term policy — four years after President Joe Biden squashed it.
On Feb. 7, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, 44, issued an internal memo to senior Pentagon leaders that revealed the terms of his trans military restrictions, which came to light on Monday, Feb. 10.
In the memo, Hegseth calls for the Pentagon to stop people "with a history of gender dysphoria" from enlisting in or reentering the armed forces. Hegseth also ordered the cancellation of all scheduled or unscheduled medical procedures related to troops' gender transitions.
Though the defense secretary did not immediately call for the expulsion of all trans service members, he delegated authority to one of his undersecretaries to provide "additional policy and implementation guidance" about their continued service, which could lead to a more exhaustive ban down the line.
Despite the new restrictions, Hegseth acknowledged that trans service members "have volunteered to serve our country" and said they should "be treated with dignity and respect."
In January, Trump signed a slate of executive orders relating to the U.S. armed forces that paved the way for Hegseth's new actions.
In addition to calling for a ban on transgender service members, Trump signed orders that removed diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the military and reinstated service members who were discharged for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine in the height of the pandemic.
A White House document previewing Trump's executive actions, which was obtained by the New York Post, blamed concerns about transgender soldiers' mental and physical readiness as a primary reason for potentially excluding thousands of people from military service.
"Unit cohesion requires high levels of integrity and stability among service members," the document said, adding that there is no room for "anything less than resilience, strength, and the ability to withstand extraordinary physical demands."
"Individuals who are unable to meet these requirements are unable to serve in the military. This has been the case for decades," the document continued.
As Biden's administration pointed out when he overturned exclusionary practices in 2021, transgender service members have qualified for the military by meeting the same standards as everyone else.
"The United States armed forces are in the business of defending our fellow citizens from our enemies, foreign and domestic," said Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the time. "I believe we accomplish that mission more effectively when we represent all our fellow citizens."
Austin continued: "I also believe we should avail ourselves of the best possible talent in our population, regardless of gender identity. We would be rendering ourselves less fit to the task if we excluded from our ranks people who meet our standards and who have the skills and the devotion to serve in uniform."
In 2017, Trump first announced the ban that prohibited transgender people from serving "in any capacity" in the military.
"After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military," Trump wrote on July 26, 2017, in a series of tweets that reportedly caught the Pentagon off guard.
He continued: "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail."
A study commissioned by President Barack Obama's secretary of defense — which was released a year before the 2017 ban — did not support Trump's logic, though, instead finding that transition-related health care costs would make up an unnoticeable fraction of the Pentagon's overall health care budget.
Based on the limited research available, the same study also suggested that embracing transgender service members would not have an impact on "unit cohesion, operational effectiveness, or readiness."
The study instead pointed to commanders from foreign militaries who said that their pro-transgender policies benefited the entire force by promoting inclusion and diversity.
Trump's initial 2017 ban was met with intense legal backlash, as well as outrage and disappointment from transgender members of the military.
“For the President to deny an able-bodied, fully qualified person the inherent right to raise their right hand and serve their country, potentially giving their own life for our freedoms, is doing this country an injustice,” Air Force Staff Sgt. Logan Ireland told PEOPLE in 2017.
On Monday, Jan. 20 — the first day of Trump's second term — Trump also signed an executive order proclaiming that there would be only two sexes, male and female, recognized by the U.S. government.
The order was another effort to repeal Biden-era policies — like the former president's 2022 move to allow citizens to select "X" as a gender-neutral marker on their passports.
https://people.com/pete-hegseth-ban-new-transgender-troops-8780874
Hegseth moves to implement Trump’s ban on transgender troops (all Trans treatments and surgeries stopped immediately)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the military to pause integrating new transgender recruits and suspend planned medical procedures meant to treat current service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria in compliance with an executive order signed by President Trump that effectively bans trans military service.
“The Department must ensure it is building ‘One Force’ without subgroups defined by anything other than ability or mission adherence. Efforts to split our troops along the lines of identity weaken our Force and make us vulnerable. Such efforts must not be tolerated or accommodated,” Hegseth wrote in a memorandum for senior Pentagon leadership, commanders of the combatant commands and Defense agency and DoD field activity directors dated Friday and unreported until now.
The one-page memo is the latest step in implementing Trump’s order barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, part of a broader effort to combat what the administration has described as “gender insanity” in the federal government.
The Jan. 27 order, titled “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,” states, “Expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for Military Service.”
“Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused, and all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members are paused,” Hegseth wrote.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed the memo as part of a lawsuit challenging Trump’s order. The plaintiffs in that case, six transgender active-duty service members and two individuals seeking to enlist in the military, had requested the department notify them whenever the administration issued guidance on implementing the executive order.
DOJ identified three additional memos from the Navy, Air Force and Army directing recruiters to reject transgender applicants, and another memo from Hegseth dated Jan. 31 that instructs DoD to take steps to implement the order.
“Biological sex is an immutable characteristic,” Hegseth wrote in the Jan. 31 memo. “It is not fluid, and it cannot transform. Gender ideology denies this fundamental reality, and places women at risk by allowing biological males to gain access to intimate, single-sex spaces.”
Two federal lawsuits argue Trump’s executive order preventing transgender troops from serving is unconstitutional.
“The assertion that transgender service members like myself are inherently untrustworthy or lack honor is an insult to all who have dedicated their lives to defending this country,” said Cmdr. Emily Shilling, the lead plaintiff in one of the cases. “My nearly two decades of service as a naval aviator and test pilot, routinely selected for the most challenging leadership roles, with 60 combat missions and over 1,700 flight hours in high-performance jets, speaks for itself.”
SPARTA Pride, an advocacy group for transgender service members of which Shilling is president, estimates between 15,000 and 25,000 transgender troops are serving, accounting for just over 1 percent of the armed forces.
According to a Congressional Research Service report updated in January, the Defense Department spent roughly $15 million on surgical and non-surgical care for 1,892 transgender active-duty service members between 2016 and 2021. Of that amount, $11.5 million was spent on psychotherapy and $3.1 million on surgeries, according to Military.com, citing department data obtained by the outlet.
Since taking office on Jan. 20, Trump has sig several orders broadly targeting transgender rights, including one meant to end federal support for gender-affirming care for children and adolescents younger than 19 and another declaring the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female. An order signed Wednesday seeks to prohibit transgender athletes from competing on girls and women’s sports teams, a directive that could complicate the nation’s role as host of the next Summer Olympics.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5136517-transgender-military-integration-medical-care-paused/amp/
DeepSeek’s AI model is ‘the best work’ out of China but the hype is 'exaggerated,' Google DeepMind CEO says
-DeepSeek’s AI model “is probably the best work” out of China, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind said on Sunday.
-Hassabis said, however, that “despite the hype, there’s no actual new scientific advance.”
-China’s DeepSeek claimed its AI model was trained at a fraction of the cost of leading AI players and on less-advanced Nvidia chips.
PARIS — DeepSeek’s AI model “is probably the best work” out of China, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind said on Sunday, but added that the company didn’t show any new scientific advances.
Last month, China’s DeepSeek released a research paper that rattled global markets after claiming its AI model was trained at a fraction of the cost of leading AI players and on less-advanced Nvidia
chips.
DeepSeek’s announcement sparked an aggressive stock sell-off and sparked considerable debate over whether large tech firms are spending too much on AI infrastructure.
Hassabis praised DeepSeek’s model as “an impressive piece of work.”
“I think its probably the best work I’ve seen come out of China,” Hassabis said at a Google-hosted event in Paris ahead of the AI Action Summit that is being hosted by the city.
The DeepMind CEO said the AI model shows that DeepSeek can do “extremely good engineering” and that it “changes things on a geopolitical scale.”
However, from a technology point of view, Hassabis said it was not a big change.
“Despite the hype, there’s no actual new scientific advance … it’s using known techniques [in AI],” he said, adding that the hype around DeepSeek has been “exaggerated a little bit.”
The DeepMind CEO said that the company’s Gemini 2.0 Flash models, which Google this week released to everyone, are more efficient than DeepSeek’s model.
DeepSeek’s claims around its low cost and the chips it uses have been questioned by experts, who think the cost of development for the Chinese firm’s models is higher.
The AI world has been debating for years when the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will happen. AGI broadly refers to AI that is smarter than humans.
Hassabis said that the AI industry is “on the path towards AGI,” which he describes as “a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities humans have.”
“I think we’re close now, you know, maybe we are only, you know, perhaps 5 years or something away from a system like that which would be pretty extraordinary,” Hassabis said.
“And I think society needs to get ready for that and what implications that will have. And, you know, make sure that we derive the benefits from that and the whole society benefits from that, but also we mitigate some of the risks, too.”
Hassabis’ comments mirror those of others in the industry who have suggested that AGI could be closer to reality.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this year said that he is “confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.”
Still, many in the industry have also flagged multiple risks associated with AGI. One of the biggest concerns is that humans will lose control of the systems they created, a view shared by prominent AI scientists Max Tegmark and Yoshua Bengio, who recently shared their concerns with CNBC over this form of AI.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/09/deepseeks-ai-model-the-best-work-out-of-china-google-deepmind-ceo.html
Musk-led investor group offers $97.4 billion for OpenAI, Altman declines
-Elon Musk and a group of investors are offering $97.4 billion to take control of OpenAI.
-Marc Toberoff, Musk’s attorney, said he submitted the bid to OpenAI’s board on Monday, the Wall Street Journal first reported.
-The bid is for the nonprofit that controls OpenAI.
Elon Musk is leading a group of investors in offering to buy control of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, CNBC confirmed.
The offer is for the nonprofit that oversees the artificial intelligence startup behind ChatGPT. In a statement sent to CNBC, Musk’s attorney Marc Toberoff said he submitted the offer on Monday.
“It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,” Toberoff wrote.
The consortium of investors includes Musk, his startup xAI, and long-time investors in his other businesses including, Baron Capital Group, Valor, Atreides, Vy Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, and an investment vehicle led by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel.
The statement from Toberoff said that the offer is “to purchase all assets of OpenAI, Inc.” with funds to be “used exclusively to further OpenAI, Inc.’s original charitable mission.”
In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.” Musk then replied to Atlman on X, with “swindler,” and in a reply to a different user, called him “Scam Altman.”
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the unsolicited bid on Monday.
Musk, who is a top advisor to President Donald Trump, is in the middle of a heated legal and public relations battle with Altman. They were two of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015, establishing the entity as a nonprofit focused on AI research.
OpenAI has since emerged as a giant in generative AI, launching ChatGPT in 2022 and setting off a wave of investment in new tools and infrastructure for next-generation AI products and services. SoftBank is close to finalizing a $40 billion investment in OpenAI at a $260 billion valuation, sources told CNBC’s David Faber last week. Microsoft
has been the biggest backer to date.
Musk is suing OpenAI, accusing it of antitrust violations and to try and keep it from converting into a for-profit corporation.
Meanwhile, OpenAI partnered with SoftBank and Oracle
in a project announced by Trump right after his inauguration called Stargate, which calls on the companies to invest billions of dollars in AI infrastructure in the U.S. The Journal reported that xAI could merge with OpenAI if a deal were to occur.
Toberoff sent a letter to the attorneys general in California and Delaware on Jan. 7, asking that bidding be opened up for OpenAI.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/musk-and-investors-offering-97point4-billion-for-control-of-openai-wsj.html
Trump ousts director of Office of Government Ethics, David Huitema
Trump ousts director of Office of Government Ethics
By Kathryn Watson
Updated on: February 10, 2025 / 6:27 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — President Trump on Monday removed the director of the Office of Government Ethics, the independent agency responsible for overseeing ethics rules and financial disclosures for the executive branch.
"OGE has been notified that the President is removing David Huitema as the director of OGE," the office said in a notice on its website. "OGE is reverting to an Acting Director."
Huitema was appointed to a five-year term by former President Biden. He was confirmed by the Senate in November 2024 and sworn in on December 16, 2024. The office's website initially listed Shelley Finlayson as its acting director. Finlayson has been at the agency since 2006, serving most recently as chief of staff. But Mr. Trump signed a document Monday evening tapping Doug Collins, a Republican former member of Congress and current Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, to be the acting director of OGE.
The move to oust Huitema comes two weeks after Mr. Trump fired at least 17 inspectors general from their roles as watchdogs without explanation, and as Mr. Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force have upended multiple government agencies.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
OGE collects both confidential and public financial disclosures, as well as ethics agreements and other forms from government officials, from the president and vice president to high-ranking appointees and Cabinet nominees. The office works to identify and prevent conflicts of interest.
"The primary mission of the executive branch ethics program is to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of executive branch employees, by working to ensure that they make impartial decisions based on the public interest, serve as good stewards of public resources, and loyally adhere to the Constitution and laws of the United States," OGE's mission statement reads.
Six months into Mr. Trump's first term in 2017, Walter Shaub resigned as the head of OGE, saying the Trump White House abandoned the "norms and ethical traditions of the executive branch that have made our ethics program the gold standard in the world until now."
Good government groups raised concerns about the removal of accountability officials at government agencies without explanation.
"The removal of David Huitema as the director of the Office of Government Ethics is the latest in a string of firings directly aimed at the accountability offices in the executive branch," said Caitlin MacNeal, communications director for the Project on Government Oversight. "The firings remove our systems of checks and balances at a time when the wealthiest man in the world is operating inside the government with vast and unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. So it's particularly alarming that the administration has fired the official in specifically charged with policing ethics."
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington executive director Donald K. Sherman said that by "firing the head of the Office of Government Ethics, President Trump is continuing his purge of any independent officials tasked with holding him and his administration accountable to the law and ethical standards."
"This follows his firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel and 17 inspectors general," Sherman said. "Together, these actions will streamline any efforts he and his administration make to personally profit, install loyalists and avoid oversight of corruption and waste. By all indications, Trump is planning to run a lawless administration and these unprecedented moves are an alarming first step to put those plans into action."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-office-of-government-ethics-director/
Plane Owned by Mötley Crüe Singer Vince Neil Involved in Fatal Crash
The rock frontman was not aboard the flight but his girlfriend was hospitalized with injuries.
A plane owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil was involved in a fatal accident in Arizona on Monday (February 10th). According to authorities, one person was killed when a Learjet 35A veered off the runway and crashed into a Gulfstream 200 business jet on the ramp at Scottsdale Municipal Airport.
In addition to the deceased, one person was trapped inside one of the planes for an extended period of time, while three others were taken to local hospitals with injuries.
Mötley Crüe’s manager Allen Kovac told TMZ that Neil was not aboard the flight, but that the singer’s girlfriend, Rain, was on the plane and sustained five broken ribs. Her friend Ashley was also on board, and was hospitalized, as well. The pair were traveling with a couple of dogs who survived the crash. The identity of the deceased has not been released as of yet.
Kovac further relayed to TMZ that Neil’s heart goes out to the victims, and that Mötley Crüe are aiming to help out in some capacity.
Scottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky stated, “Today, Scottsdale sadly experienced an aircraft accident at our airport. Based on the information provided thus far, it appears at least one person is dead after two jets collided on the runway at Scottsdale Airport.”
Local station Newschannel 5 (WTVF) reports that the Learjet 35A is owned by Chromed In Hollywood, a company based in Franklin, Tennessee, and is registered in Wyoming with Vince Neil listed as a principal agent.
A statement from the FAA reads: “A Learjet 35A veered off the runway after landing and crashed into a Gulfstream 200 business jet on the ramp at Scottsdale Municipal Airport in Arizona around 2:45 p.m. local time Monday, Feb. 10.”
A couple years ago, it was reported that Neil’s 1985 Learjet 35A was up for sale, but according to the Aviation Safety Network, the plane that was involved in the crash is a 1989 model.
Two local news reports on the crash can be seen below, as well as raw video of the moment of impact.
https://consequence.net/2025/02/vince-neil-plane-involved-fatal-crash/
When you invite the quiet new kid to your fun dress up party.
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