8 killed in 'cataclysmic plane crash,' including 20-year-old female co-pilot

8 killed in ‘cataclysmic plane crash,’ including 20-year-old female co-pilot


A Learjet 60 traveling from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas to the Bahamas crashed near Cresthaven, Florida, around 12:50 p.m. on Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Everyone on board was killed.

The co-pilot of the airplane has now been identified.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed that all nine people aboard the aircraft perished in the crash.

Dashcam footage of the crash shows the plane flying nose-first at an incredible speed into a Palm Beach County road and exploding into a fireball filled with debris.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) told reporters at the site of the crash, “Obviously this was a cataclysmic plane crash. It looked like a missile going

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