YouTuber, dad killed in plane crash 1 month after ‘aircraft malfunction’ close call - noob amateur pilot and YouTuber, TNFlygirl, 43, kills self and Dad in high speed plane crash

https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/news/tennessee-aviation-youtuber-jenny-blalock-dad-killed-in-plane-crash/

A popular aviation YouTuber and her father were killed when their plane crashed in Tennessee Thursday — just one month after she posted a video of her facing an “aircraft malfunction” at 4,000 feet.

Jenny Blalock, 45, and her father James, 78, went down around 11 a.m. and crashed on a remote road in Pulaski, a city on the central-southern border of Alabama, according to federal and county officials.

Their bodies were discovered outside the plane, which landed in a “remote” area that was difficult for crews to reach.

“It was just devastating. It was significant damage again. Unfortunately, there were just no survivors,” Bill Myers, director of the Giles County Office of Emergency Management, told 10 News.



The father-and-daughter pair had traveled 180 miles from Knoxville when the aircraft plummeted, FlightAware data shows. They were roughly 10 miles short of landing at a city-owned airport.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation, but it comes just a month after Blalock — known in the community as TNFlyGirl — posted a video of herself executing an emergency landing during an “aircraft malfunction” from 4,000 feet in the air.


“Are we going to make it?” she eerily asks her flight instructor after he points out the plane’s battery had died mid-flight.


Later, she discovered that the plane also had screws loose on its regulator.

Despite the harrowing ordeal, Blalock remained calm and expertly landed the aircraft without issue.

“God bless and fly safe,” the well-known YouTuber told her 16,000 subscribers.

According to her account, she was a “private pilot, flying for fun in a Beechcraft Debonair.”

Blalock, who also is a luxury home builder and designer, frequently filmed her flying excursions with her father since launching her popular channel in 2021.

Their fatal flight appeared to be one of the first the pair had taken together “in a while,” according to a video Blalock posted in November.
Jenny and her dad were not just daughter/father, they were best friends and did EVERYTHING together!” her partner, Brett Thees, said on Facebook.

The Blalock family issued a statement saying they take comfort in knowing the father-daughter pair “were together when they met our Lord and Savior!”

 

[Crashman11]

some of the comments from one of her recent flying vids are savage.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Must... resist... cracking... a joke... Low-hanging fruit...

 

[Crashman11]

link

 

[Fascist Frederick]

She crashed back through the glass ceiling and into the ground.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

The Blalock family issued a statement saying they take comfort in knowing the father-daughter pair “were together when they met our Lord and Savior!”

That already uncomfortable statement is going to be so much more uncomfortable if the investigation finds pilot error to be the cause.

I remember when lines like "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers." were funny because of how outrageous they were. Every day we stray further from God's light... and closer to the circus calliope.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

More like TNCrashGirl.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Yeah so given her history, maybe she loosened some screws in an attempt to make a viral video.

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some of the comments from one of her recent flying vids are savage.

The thing with those comments is, they don’t generally give pilot’s licenses to absolute morons. You have to put in a lot of hours of actual flying.

So most likely, the comment is referring to her pretending not to be able to gain altitude in a video to make it more compelling or whatever.

 

[oldTireWater]

This guy did a preliminary analysis of the known information, and some of her historical flight videos. His suspicion is that it was pilot error based on misuse of the auto-pilot.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

“God bless and fly safe,” the well-known YouTuber told her 16,000 subscribers.

16000 subscribers in 2023 doesn't really strike me as all that many, unless they were all engaged, I guess. Sorry she's dead and all that, but "well-known" seems like a bit of an exaggeration.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

16000 subscribers in 2023 doesn't really strike me as all that many, unless they were all engaged, I guess. Sorry she's dead and all that, but "well-known" seems like a bit of an exaggeration.

No kidding. I have people in my subscription list that have dropped off from posting three videos a week to three videos a year because of Real Life and they still have 30K+ subs, but their new videos sit in the couple hundreds of views. I wouldn't call that popular.

As to TNFlygirl, if you scroll down past her recent stuff (which has clearly seen a rubbernecking boost) her videos were averaging about 1,000 views, and a few struggled to break 500. There's a few breakout hits but they all seem to be about the plane in question so I suspect that's just more rubbernecking.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

I need video footage please. And crash scene photos.

 

[frozen_runner]

16000 subscribers in 2023 doesn't really strike me as all that many, unless they were all engaged, I guess. Sorry she's dead and all that, but "well-known" seems like a bit of an exaggeration.

She was a true and honest woman. Gotta soften the blow somehow.

 

[Gottahavemysips]

Yeah so given her history, maybe she loosened some screws in an attempt to make a viral video.

I don't think there's a chance, the video was after that one skydiving douche got caught out for his viral "emergency" skydive which was unveiled almost immediately. Aircraft emergency vids aren't going to go viral among the general without some kind of flashy element, and considering she just got into an actually deadly crash, I'm thinking it's far more likely that this is due to poor maintenance, pilot error, or a combination of those two factors rather than any kind of intentional attempt to create vitality. Then again, dumber shit has happened. I still think you'd have to be incredibly retarded to try and force an emergency after skydive douche, he got fucked by other pilots who examined his video, then he got fucked by the FAA when he lost his license, and I think just recently he got fucked by the state and is serving a sentence.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

Small aircraft and helicopters are death traps, they crash all the time and have killed a lot of prominent people, yet for some reason people still think flying something that WILL kill you if it crashes for "fun" is a good idea and the public goes shocked pikachu face when some athlete, musician, or youtuber dies in one of these things despite it being a thing since the 50s.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

They'd would both be alive if Barbie had been frogmarched back to the kitchen after the first brush with death.

Equality and empowerment at it's best, folks!

 

[HerrKlicks]

She had 400 hrs which isn't a lot but also isn't total newbie territory.
For reference that's almost a third on the way to the 1500 hrs you need to get your big boy wings with the airlines.

She must have the worst instructors (who probably were more interested in getting into her pants than to teach her how to fly properly).
From the vids she was totally behind the aircraft and, to make matters worse, more fixated on getting good angles/great shots with her cameras than actually flying the plane. There is a reason that commercial pilots have to keep a sterile (= no distractions by personal electronics etc) cockpit below 10000ft.

Obligatory I am not a CFI, I do not hold a PPL or any other rating - only a sim enthusiast but IMHO it was just a matter of time until she ended up in a fireball.
Shame she took her dad and a very capable airplane with nice avionics down with her. Girlbossed a little too hard indeed.

 

[Snekposter]

His suspicion is that it was pilot error based on misuse of the auto-pilot.

Women flyers, am I right?

Small aircraft and helicopters are death traps, they crash all the time and have killed a lot of prominent people, yet for some reason people still think flying something that WILL kill you if it crashes for "fun" is a good idea and the public goes shocked pikachu face when some athlete, musician, or youtuber dies in one of these things despite it being a thing since the 50s.

Yeah, Cessna planes are known as "Doctor Killers" for a reason. As to it being "fun" or not, well... everyone's gotta die some time. Might as well enjoy yourself by doing dangerous shit at high speed until then. I don't think Jay Leno's going to complain overmuch if he meets St. Peter reeking of smoke and gasoline and with a piece of car frame wrapped around his body.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

The black box revealed that her last words were: "NO, I'M FINE".

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Small aircraft and helicopters are death traps, they crash all the time and have killed a lot of prominent people, yet for some reason people still think flying something that WILL kill you if it crashes for "fun" is a good idea and the public goes shocked pikachu face when some athlete, musician, or youtuber dies in one of these things despite it being a thing since the 50s.

Plus it's ridiculously expensive to get into light aviation so it attracts a LOT of rich pricks (especially older rich pricks) who think they're God's gift to airplanes.

Or young rich pricks/ thots with Daddy's money who think they're smarter than physics.


Fun fact, the USA in WW2 produced over 300 THOUSAND pilots in a few years. If you follow the manual and don't act like a retard flying a GAA plane isn't that hard.

I'll say the people that finally figured out the airplane recovery parachute at Cirrus are blessed.