Two people were killed this Friday when a private jet crashed on a highway in South Florida, United States.
The accident occurred around 3:15 p.m. local time, not far from a small town called Naples, in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the American Civil Aviation Regulatory Agency on X (formerly Twitter).
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Images from the scene posted on social media showed the plane engulfed in flames and smoke after crash-landing on Interstate 75 and coming to rest next to a roadside retaining wall.
Two minutes before the accident, the pilot had radioed the air traffic control station to say “that he had lost both engines and was requesting an emergency landing”.
As can be heard in the radio exchange, the air traffic controller immediately cleared the plane to land but the pilot said it would not reach the runway.
Five people were present in the vehicle.
An investigation will be opened by the American Civil Aviation Regulatory Agency and the National Transportation Safety Board.