In the blink of an eye, a private jet plummeting 450 feet per second nosedived into a Florida roadway, bursting into flames and killing all nine people on board.

Federal investigators said it would take days to recover the wreckage from the impact crater and the wide swath of debris left behind by the plane.

All nine people aboard a private jet that took off from Austin on Sunday died when it crashed in Florida.

Authorities are investigating after a plane with nine people on board crashed in a residential area in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The plane had departed from Austin and was heading to the Bahamas with nine people on board when it crashed, federal officials said.

The Learjet 60 was traveling from Austin to the Bahamas on Sunday when it fell from the sky onto Military Trail, a major north-south highway in Palm Beach County in Greenacres, located about seven miles southwest of West Palm Beach, CNN reported.

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