Air traffic control audio revealed the panicked final moments from a private jet as it plummeted to Earth near a South Florida mobile home park, leaving at least nine people dead.
“Holy f–k we’re out of time,” a female crew member aboard the Learjet 60 is heard screaming to an air traffic controller in the last moments before the plane nose-dived straight into the ground about 1 p.m. Sunday.
Just moments earlier, the pilot is heard reporting moderate turbulence and “light, clear ice that is manageable” to the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center.
But things took a turn for the worse in an instant, as she radioed a chilling “mayday” message to the controller.
“We’re descending 8,000 — mayday, mayday — we’re descending 10,000 feet per minute,” the pilot said. “We are in an overspeed condition, descending 20,000 feet per minute,” the pilot screamed moments earlier.
“We’re going to crash into the ground,” she said, letting out a chilling scream.
“November two bravo delta, I’m here with you, talk to me,” the controller replied.
“We are descending 22,000 feet, and we are banking, 60 degrees … look outside,” the crew member replied, before uttering the haunting last message.
The private jet, believed to be worth $2 million, was en route from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas when it smashed into the Greenacres mobile home community.
Shocking videos captured the plane nosediving into the ground, triggering an enormous fireball that left behind a crater in the earth.
The plane clipped a tree and brought down power lines in a crash so loud “it sounded like a missile.” Aviation 24/7 reported.
The wreckage of the jet and a mobile home are visible in the horrific scene, roughly 9 miles from President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach County.
The site is also four miles south of an airport in West Palm Beach, where Trump departed more than an hour before the fiery crash, CNN reported.
The Learjet 60 was registered to a private business, LR60271 LLC, in Wilmington, Delaware.
Authorities said there are “multiple fatalities” and have not yet confirmed how many people, including those on the ground, were killed or injured.
Greenacres is a community for modular and mobile homes just outside Palm Springs.
