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Updated · BBC.com · Nov 2Florida Private Jet Crash Kills 9 as Audio and Data Reconstruct Final Minutes
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Nov 2Summary
- Nine people died when a private jet crashed in Florida on Sunday, according to US authorities.
- BBC Verify reconstructed the aircraft’s final minutes using air traffic control audio and flight-tracking data.
- The report pieces together the sequence immediately before impact, drawing on recorded communications and the jet’s flight path.
- The reconstruction adds detail to a fatal crash whose cause was not established in the latest report.
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What caused a private Learjet to plunge 27,000 feet in a single minute, leaving a massive crater in a Florida neighborhood? How did a doomed jet plummeting at 30,000 feet per minute miraculously avoid killing anyone on the ground in Palm Beach County? Will open-source flight data and chilling final audio recordings reveal the truth behind this deadly crash before official investigators?