{"id":444894,"date":"2026-11-02T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444894\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:36:08","slug":"residents-describe-moment-learjet-plummets-and-explodes-in-florida-mobile-home-park-everything-was-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444894\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents describe moment Learjet plummets and explodes in Florida mobile home park: ‘Everything was on fire’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Horrified residents described the aftermath of a private jet nosediving to the ground <\/a>and exploding near a Florida mobile home community \u2014 killing nine people on board and forcing hundreds on the ground to evacuate. <\/a><\/p>\n

Local Anthony Blackmon told NBC6 <\/a>he was about 500 feet from the Learjet 60 when it plummeted straight to the Earth and erupted into a fireball in Greenacres around 1:25 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

Nine people on board were killed when the plane nose-dived into the Palm Beach neighborhood. Aki Kuusisto via REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cDebris was everywhere. Debris hit my house. Everything was on fire. The road was on fire,\u201d Blackmon told the outlet. \u201cI\u2019ve always seen it on the news, never thought it would happen so close to somebody like how it happened today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another nearby resident, Roger Forcelle, said he felt the Bahamas-bound aircraft, believed to be worth $2 million, pass over his house moments before the terrifying 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. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody came out of their houses because you could feel it shaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

A resident said it \u201clooked like a meteor hit the ground\u201d after the jet\u2019s impact. NBC Miami<\/p>\n

Forcelle said he saw a massive cloud of smoke rising from the area, and he couldn\u2019t return home after leaving to run errands.<\/p>\n

Another resident said it \u201clooked like a meteor hit the ground\u201d after the jet \u2014 which took off from Austin, Texas \u2014 smashed into a roadway.<\/p>\n

All nine people on board were killed in the crash, Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy confirmed. <\/p>\n

Miraculously, there have not yet been any reports of people on the ground who were killed or injured, according to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n

A shocking dashcam video captured the jet rapidly plummeting into the ground and exploding into a massive plume of fire and smoke.<\/p>\n

The jet\u2019s forceful impact left debris strewn over a \u201csignificant distance,\u201d forcing roughly 600 people to evacuate. NBC Miami<\/p>\n

A pilot aboard the doomed plane was also heard in air traffic control audio <\/a>uttering the last words, \u201choly f\u2013k, we\u2019re out of time\u201d before crashing.<\/p>\n

The jet\u2019s forceful impact left debris strewn over a \u201csignificant distance,\u201d forcing roughly 600 people, including those in an adjacent mobile home park, to evacuate as federal investigators begin investigating the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now our priority is evacuating the adjacent community right behind. We have about 600 people that we have to make sure have shelter tonight, food,\u201d Joel Flores, Palm Beach County Commissioner for District 3,\u00a0said at a press conference Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

DeSantis described the plane crash as \u201ccataclysmic\u201d and a \u201ctragic way to see people pass away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, this was a cataclysmic plane crash. It looked like a missile going down. It left a big crater on the side of the road,\u201d DeSantis told reporters.<\/p>\n

The National Transportation Safety Board said it has initiated a \u201cgo-team\u201d to arrive on the scene on Sunday night and Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horrified residents described the aftermath of a private jet nosediving to the ground and exploding near a Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6576,8997,28,30,29,9097,27433,4278],"class_list":["post-444894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-evacuations","tag-explosions","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-palm-beach","tag-plane-crashes","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444894","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=444894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}