A Palm Beach neighborhood is shaken up Sunday after a Learjet 60 nose-dived into a road in Greenacres. Nine people on board the plane were killed in the crash. <\/p>\n
Video from the scene showed a huge hole in the ground. Nearby resident Anthony Blackmon said he was about 500 feet from the crash and described the experience as terrifying. <\/p>\n
\u201cDebris was everywhere. Debris hit my house. Everything was on fire. The road was on fire,” Blackmon said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always seen it on the news, never thought it would happen so close to somebody like how it happened today,\u201d Blackman added.<\/p>\n
Another nearby resident Roger Forcelle said he felt the aircraft pass over his home shortly before the crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt shook the whole house. It went right over us and crashed probably less than half a mile from where I live,\u201d Forcelle said. \u201cEverybody came out of their houses because you could feel it shaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he later saw a cloud of smoke rising from the area and was unable to return home after leaving to run errands.<\/p>\n
Another person who saw the aftermath said it ‘looked like a meteor hit the ground’.<\/p>\n
The crash also displaced hundreds of people near a mobile home park.<\/p>\n
District 3 Commissioner Joel Flores said officials were working to ensure about 600 people affected by the crash had a safe place to stay Sunday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we have about 600 people that we have to make sure that they have shelter tonight,\u201d Flores said.<\/p>\n
Flores said the Red Cross was standing by to provide additional services to those affected. He said officials\u2019 immediate concern was making sure residents had somewhere safe to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Palm Beach neighborhood is shaken up Sunday after a Learjet 60 nose-dived into a road in Greenacres.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,557],"class_list":["post-444714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-palm-beach-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444714","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=444714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}