‘Cataclysmic’ jet crash onto Florida roadway kills all 9 on board

All nine people on board a Learjet 60 jet died in a “cataclysmic” crash in Florida on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

The flight, which departed from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas and was headed for North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas, crashed near Cresthaven, a residential neighborhood in Palm Beach County, around 12:50 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said all nine people on the flight died. He called the crash a “horrific tragedy” on social media, adding, “Please join me in praying for the families and loved ones of those we lost.”

The identities of the people on board have not been released.

Video captured on a car’s dashcam showed the moment the jet nose-dived into a roadway at high speed, resulting in a fiery explosion. Plumes of fire and smoke billowed from the site of impact.

Another video of the aftermath showed a crater in the middle of a road engulfed in flames.

In distressing air traffic control audio, a woman says: “Mayday, mayday. We’re descending 10,000 feet per minute.”

She later frantically yells, saying the jet was descending at 20,000 feet per minute.

“We’re gonna crash into the ground 722 Bravo Delta,” she…

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