Dashcam footage captures moment private jet crashes in southern Florida, killing nine
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- User-generated dashcam video circulating on social media recorded the aircraft plunging toward the ground
- The fatal incident comes amid heightened scrutiny of domestic aviation safety and regulatory oversight in the United States
Dashcam footage has captured the moment a private business jet plunged out of the sky and crashed into a southern Florida neighborhood on Sunday, killing all nine people on board.
The aircraft, identified by aviation authorities as a twin-engine Learjet 60, had departed Austin, Texas, and was en route to the Bahamas when it went down in Palm Beach County, near the Cresthaven area of Greenacres.
Video recorded from a motorist’s dashboard camera shows the aircraft descending steeply at high speed alongside a rain-slicked thoroughfare before slamming into the ground near the intersection of Military Trail and 10th Avenue North.
The impact triggered a massive fireball and a dense plume of black smoke, leaving a significant crater in the roadway and scattering burning wreckage just yards from passing vehicles and adjacent residential properties.
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed the fatalities in a public statement, describing the incident as a "horrific tragedy" and verifying that there were no survivors among the nine individuals aboard. Authorities had not publicly identified the victims pending formal notification of their next of kin.
The crash occurred in Palm Beach County, where Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is located, though officials stressed that there is no indication of any link between the property or the presidency and the flight.
Federal investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have been deployed to the crash site, with the NTSB leading the inquiry into what caused the aircraft to lose control.
