A close-up footage of the Bahamas-bound Learjet that crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida, shows the large crater from the business jet crash. Nine people died when the jet crashed and erupted in flames.
Here’s the footage: National Transportation Safety Board records say that this crash is the second deadliest in the United States this year, after June’s skydiving plane crash in Butler, Missouri , which killed 12 people. The nine victims’ identities have not been released yet. A county official reportedly said that about 600 people are in need of shelter on the ground due to the crash.
It also remains unknown how many passengers and crew were in the plane. Florida Gov. However, the crash created a significant debris field. Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the crash a “horrific tragedy.
Ron DeSantis said that there are no reports of anyone on the ground being killed. “It looked like a missile going down,” DeSantis said of the crash, per CNN. Duffy confirmed in an X post that the jet had “departed from Austin, Texas, and was headed to the Bahamas” and that the “FAA is sending a team to the scene to support the @NTSB’s investigation. The FAA has said that it will investigate the crash along with the NTSB.
However, just moments later, after reporting precipitation started to fall and requesting to climb, an emergency was declared. He added that the residents are being sent to two shelters in the county. Meanwhile, the site is being investigated.
Just minutes before the tragedy, the pilot reported ice accumulating on the aircraft, an outside air temperature of -47 degrees Celsius, and moderate turbulence, bouncing the plane by up to 700 feet, according to a recording of air traffic control radio calls captured by LiveATC.net. “We are in an overspeed condition descending 20,000 feet per minute … We’re going to crash into the ground. ADS-B Exchange revealed that the aircraft descended 27,000 feet over the course of one minute, just before flight tracking data was cut off.
Joel Flores, Palm Beach County commissioner for District 3, said that about 600 people require shelter after the crash due to damage on the ground.
The crash took place near Military Trail, between Cresthaven Boulevard and 10th Avenue North, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “We have light, clear ice that is manageable and moderate turbulence,” the pilot radioed the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center. “We’re descending 8,000 – mayday, mayday – we’re descending 10,000 feet per minute,” the pilot said.
