A business jet crashed yesterday in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, killing all nine people on board. Authority investigators said today that it appeared parts of the plane had fallen off before the crash.
The crashed United States Learjet 60 jet wastexas Austin took off and was supposed to fly to the island nation of Bahamas, but he crashedFlorida Near a residential area in Palm Beach County.
National Transportation Safety Board member Tom Chapman said at a news conference that it appeared the jet had begun to break up before it hit the ground, the Associated Press reported.
“We have some indications that the plane began to break up before impact,” Chapman said.
He also noted: “We may have found aircraft parts some distance from the actual impact site.”
Palm Beach County police declined to discuss the investigation into the crash, but said it was still in the early stages.
Data from flight tracking website Flightradar24 showed that the jet’s vertical descent speed once exceeded 32,000 feet per minute.
