We had a Lear 20 series go down by El Paso a while back. A buddy I work with used to work at an aircraft salvage yard in Lancaster, Texas. He went out on recocery and it was pretty amazing he said. the aircraft went from like FL 280 to zero in less than 30 seconds. He has a Zippo lighter that he found that was in the pilots pocket. It is about as thin as 3 credit cards stacked and has the imprint of all the spare change in his pocket. You can see the eagle of the quarter and even read the date! Completely amazing! Oh yea. One other one. I used to work in Wichita, KS at the factory. And on 10 Oct 2000, a challenger 604 was going on a routine high altitude test flight to FL510. Cant remember what they were testing exactly, but I think it was CG related. Anyway, I was a lead Tech at the time and we were getting ready to do a shift change. I remember a second shift guy coming in shaking and white as a ghost. I asked him what the hell was wrong and he told me he had just seen a plane crash on his way into work. I was like, yea right, whatever. He pointed outside the hangar door and all I saw was smoke, thick black billowing smoke. I ran out side and the entire airport field was on fire. We had horrible 30-35 mph wind out of the south, and they were driving the grass fire to the north towards the hangar. Next thing I know its time to go home and traffic was a nightmare. First of all you couldn't see due to the smoke, and second was everyone was in mass chaos. News helicopters everywhere! Apparently the aircraft rotated on takeoff and had a severe yaw to one side, then a severe yaw to the other side. It swung back and the wingtip drove into the ground, flipping the aircraft. It ended up on Tyler road that is an airport perimeter road. It almost ended up on the Golf Course which is just on the other side. The pilots were still alive in the photo's, but rescuers couldn't get to them fast enough from what I hear. The first guy on the scene was the airport security guard you see in the link's photo's. I took like 30 ax blows to the windshield just to penetrate it. Two pilots died there, one was extracted and died about a month later from burns. Later they moved the aircraft to out Paint and Delivery hangar and the NTSB blocked off all the windows and put their own locks on the doors. I remember the smell of that hangar and I'll never forget it. Black Death is all I can think of to describe it!
[link]http://aviation-safety.net/database/2000/001010-0.htm[/link]

NTSB still hasn't released a final report yet. I check about once a month!