on social media<\/a>, adding, \u201cPlease join me in praying for the families and loved ones of those we lost.\u201d<\/p>\nThe identities of the people on board have not been released.<\/p>\n
Video showed a crater in the middle of a road engulfed in flames. <\/p>\n
In distressing air traffic control audio, a woman can be heard saying, \u201cMayday, mayday. We\u2019re descending 10,000 feet per minute.\u201d<\/p>\n
She later frantically yells, saying the jet was descending at 20,000 feet per minute.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re gonna crash into the ground 722 Bravo Delta,\u201d she can be heard saying, followed by a scream.<\/p>\n
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis described the crash as \u201ccataclysmic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looked like a missile going down. It left a big crater on the side of the road,\u201d DeSantis told reporters after the crash.<\/p>\n
He said the crash spewed a large amount of debris that spanned a \u201cpretty significant distance\u201d but that there were no reports of anyone on the ground being injured or killed.<\/p>\n
The aircraft is registered to an LLC in Delaware, according to FAA records. <\/p>\n
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n
The Palm Beach County Sheriff\u2019s Office said an aircraft incident was under investigation in the area of Military Trail, and all northbound and southbound lanes are closed until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All nine people on board a Learjet 60 jet died in a \u201ccataclysmic\u201d crash in Florida on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-444652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}