Video footage included in report.
USA. – A Learjet 60 crashed in a residential area near Cresthaven, Florida on Sunday, 1 November at approximately 12:50 local time. Nine people were on board.
Video footage of the aircraft accident was shared on the official Facebook page of meteorologist Greg Dee. He specialises in monitoring severe weather conditions, including tropical systems and tornadoes.
Footage from a vehicle's dashboard camera shows the aircraft falling from the sky and striking the ground with an explosion, while other vehicles pass by on the road. According to Sean Duffy, the United States Secretary of Transportation, none of the nine people on board survived the accident.
According to the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the aircraft was travelling from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will investigate the accident.
According to available air traffic control recordings, the pilots reported turbulence, icing and precipitation shortly before the accident and requested to climb to a higher altitude. The aircraft rapidly lost altitude shortly after and the pilot issued a mayday call. Approximately 600 residents of a nearby community in mobile homes were evacuated as a precautionary measure while emergency teams handled the scene.
Sources: FAA, Local 10 News, Associated Press, ABC News and Flightradar24
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
