Overview
- The Learjet 60 departed Austin, Texas, bound for the Bahamas and struck a residential mobile‑home area in Palm Beach County, Florida, with U.S. officials saying all nine people aboard were killed.
- Online videos and unofficial flight‑tracking data show the jet fell from cruise altitude on a near‑vertical trajectory at very high speed, breaking apart on impact and leaving a crater while burning in a fuel‑fed blaze.
- The co‑pilot has been identified in media reports as 20‑year‑old Nathalia Gadelha, a pilot who earned her license while in high school, but officials have not released a full, verified passenger list.
- The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have opened formal investigations and are recovering wreckage, air traffic recordings, and the aircraft’s flight data to determine probable cause.
- The crash damaged homes and power lines in the neighborhood and officials have not confirmed whether there were any ground fatalities; investigators are also examining weather and possible icing reported on radio transmissions.