Pilot reported icing and turbulence minutes before nose-diving into Palm Beach road

A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a giant fireball that appeared to just miss homes before crashing near a busy roadway. Everyone on board was killed, the nation s transportation secretary said. Video recorded by people inside their cars captured the terrifying moment the Bahamas-bound aircraft plunged from the sky, before striking near the roadway and exploding. Flames flickered around chunks of pavement lining the crater as people milled about, expressing shock that it landed only feet from homes and inches from passing vehicles. Thick black smoke engulfed the crash site. “It was a cataclysmic plane crash,” Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters at the scene. “It looked like a missile going down and left a big crater on the side of the road.” Pilot declared emergency moments before crash Rain pounded the region on Sunday. A flood watch due to excessive rainfall was in effect through Monday afternoon, the Nat