UPDATE AT 3:16 pm from FAA: “A Learjet 60 crashed in a residential area near Cresthaven, Florida, around 12:50 p.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 1. Nine people were on board. The aircraft departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas and was headed to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate. The NTSB will be in charge of the investigation and will provide all updates.”
Videos From the Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1xlagy3/f16_crash_near_me/
UPDATE 3: Super close angle, looks insane
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfNg0bFgwAw
UPDATE: Found a video that confirms some peoples theory that it was Lear 60, N722BD
https://streamable.com/4wg8zu
UPDATE 2: High quality video
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfNekoeguTB/
Other angles:
Do yourself a favor and skip the audio recording.
Honestly, I wish I took your advice. If you’d not said anything, I wouldn’t have looked it up.
That was horrific. What a terrifying last few moments of her life.
Having heard of the inflight audio recording of Japan’s worst plane crash in 1985, I no need to listen to this horror.
Something is weird about this. If it’s not an icing or trim problem then I am extremely suspicious of its proximity to Mar A Lago. Don’t listen to the audio if you don’t want to be haunted.
The VASAviation video that I linked to in this thread has them being warned about extreme precipitation, has another aircraft trying to fly around the weather, has the downed aircraft flying into icing conditions and turbulence, asking ATC for alternate routes, saying that they were handling it, then shortly after reporting that air temperature was -47°C, and telling ATC that they needed to climb (I assume to get out of the weather). The VASAviation channel was commenting on the dangers of icing, and the video title was “Learjet N722BD Crash in Extreme Weather (Ice and Turbulence)”. I’d assume that the root cause was likely ice.
Yeah. I’m not going to watch any video or audio, but one other report said they saw zero airspeed, meaning an iced pitot tube.
The news of air defense being put into Mara Lago and a plane crash right afterwords is crazy sus.
VASAviation has a video up for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5dfFoZ_fuQ
(They do visualizations of aviation incidents using flight data and audio.)
Are plane crashes this common normally in the US or is there just more cameras running?
It’s news because it’s uncommon.
Yeah, common human comprehension of statistics issue. Frequency of information about something !== frequency of occurrence.
Things more dramatic or uncommon are always gonna get more airtime and wider distribution
There are more flights in general but also there have been severe overworking (and subsequent resignations/lack of uptake) in Air Traffic Control particularly and overworking of pilots. Alas, capitalism is gonna capitalism if corporations run the government and there is less emphasis on safety.
General aviation crashes/accidents outside of commercial lines are actually super common, there’s usually multiple a day across the US (there were over 1000 reported accidents in 2023). Most of them are non-fatal and generally very minor so they don’t make the news except in their very local areas.
This is just people circle jerking to humans suffering and death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents
About 500 people die a year. A lot of accidents happen in with bush planes and small, badly maintained jets. High profile accidents contribute rarely but feature higher victim count.
https://bocanewsnow.com/2026/11/01/plane-crash-in-palm-beach-county/
Public tracking data seemingly vanished from airplane tracking services within 30 minutes of the crash.
Seems fine to me on adsbexchange.
What a terrible day for the poor people in the mobile home.
Lawsuit and a payout from the private jet class?
Any casualty information?
