Overview
- The Learjet 60 registered N722BD plunged into a Palm Beach County residential roadway on Sunday, November 1, at about 12:50 p.m. local time and all nine people aboard were killed.
- Air traffic and cockpit audio include a mayday, a female voice reporting moderate turbulence and icing, and a final warning that the plane was descending rapidly before communications cut out.
- Independent flight‑tracking services recorded extreme descent rates just before loss of signal, with reported vertical speeds that reached tens of thousands of feet per minute.
- The FAA and NTSB have opened a formal probe that will treat weather conditions as a major element while investigators verify the cockpit voice recorder, review maintenance and operator records, and analyze radar and telemetry.
- The crash left a large crater and fire damage on a busy road and appears to have injured one motorist; formal victim identification requires genetic tests though relatives and media have named copilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras and the aircraft was offered for charter and owned by a Delaware LLC.