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9 people dead in Learjet crash in south Florida, officials say · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: All nine people aboard a private Learjet 60 were killed
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  Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon when the aircraft plunged into a residential area
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  Speaker 1: in Greenacres, Florida, located in Palm Beach County roughly seven
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  Speaker 1: miles southwest of West Palm Beach. The twin-engine business jet
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  Speaker 1: was traveling from Austin, Bergstrom International Airport in Texas to
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  Speaker 1: North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas in when it rapidly
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  Speaker 1: lost altitude and struck the ground near the intersection of
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  Speaker 1: Military Trail and 10th Avenue North. Federal transportation officials confirmed
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  Speaker 1: that there were no survivors among the nine occupants on board.
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  Speaker 1: According to flight tracking data and preliminary air traffic control recordings,
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  Speaker 1: the flight was cruising at 35,000 feet when the crew
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  Speaker 1: requested a climb to 37,000 feet, citing heavy turbulence, precipitation,
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  Speaker 1: and structural icing. Moments later, the aircraft entered an extreme
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  Speaker 1: steep descent, with rates exceeding 30,000 feet per minute, before
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  Speaker 1: the flight crew issued a mayday distress call. Ground-level dashcam
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  Speaker 1: and security video captured the high-velocity impact, which triggered an
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  Speaker 1: immediate explosion and left a crater along the roadside, severing
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  Speaker 1: local utility lines and water mains. Emergency responders and local
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement secured the crash zone, evacuating roughly 600 residents
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  Speaker 1: from an adjacent mobile home park while utility crews worked
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  Speaker 1: to restore power across the neighborhood. Local officials confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: neighboring John I, Leonard Community High School would remain closed
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  Speaker 1: on Monday as recovery operations proceed. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
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  Speaker 1: described the crash as cataclysmic emphasizing that state emergency management
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  Speaker 1: assets have been deployed to support local emergency crews and
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  Speaker 1: displaced residents. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation
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  Speaker 1: Safety Board have launched a joint investigation into the accident.
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  Speaker 1: Investigative teams dispatched to Palm Beach County are working to
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  Speaker 1: retrieve the aircraft's flight data recorders, examine radar telemetry, and
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  Speaker 1: evaluate severe weather conditions active in the region during the flight.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities have not yet publicly released the identities of the
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  Speaker 1: passengers and crew pending full family notifications.