Horrifying new video has emerged of a private jet crashing onto a busy Florida highway, killing two pilots before a flight attendant and two passengers escaped the burning wreckage.
The Bombardier Challenger 600, which was carrying five people, lost two engines and crashed on Interstate 75 around 3:15 p.m. Friday while trying to land at the nearby Naples airport.
Dash cam video shows it descending rapidly on the freeway as the car continues to drive in the same direction — before it suddenly crashes and explodes in a ball of fire.
A car was seen approaching the scene and then stopped as a plume of black smoke billowed from the plane.
“I was like, ‘What is that?'” Miami truck driver Alfonso del Nodal told NBC Miami about the dash cam footage. “Then I realized it was a plane coming down, and then within seconds, it crashed.”
Del Nodal said he stopped and tried to help.
“But an explosion came and the first thing that came to my mind was 9/11,” he told the outlet. “Then we heard, ‘Bam! Bam!’ and I saw three people come out.”
A Bombardier Challenger 600 private jet was seen plummeting towards a Florida highway while attempting to make an emergency landing. Alfonso Del Nodal via REUTERS The plane crashed on I-75 near Naples after it lost both engines. Alfonso Del Nodal/Facebook Both pilots were killed, but a flight attendant and two passengers managed to escape from the wreckage. Alfonso Del Nodal/Facebook
Killed in the crash were Capt. Edward Daniel Murphy, 50, and co-pilot Frederick Hoffman, 65, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said.
Crew member Sydney Ann Bosmans, 23, and passengers Aaron Baker, 35, and Audra Green, 23, were captured in another video escaping from the burning plane, owned by Fort Lauderdale-based Hop-A-Jet Worldwide Charter.
Two bystanders saw the jet on fire after it crashed on I-75 in Florida on Friday afternoon. Paulina Testerman
They were taken to a local hospital for their injuries. Their terms were not immediately available.
“Yes! Our pilot! Our pilot!” a woman can be heard shouting back in the recording. When asked if the pilot was still alive, the woman replied: “I don’t know. I don’t know much else.”
In a chilling audio recording, Murphy calmly told airport controllers about the loss of an engine moments before disaster.
Video posted on social media showed the plane fully engulfed in flames in the middle of the southbound lane, billowing black smoke as drivers who stopped looked on. @JobaRobinson via Storyful
Passing motorist Kyle Cavaliere yelled to the survivors to see if anyone was still in the plane.
“Hop-A-Jet 823, lost both engines, emergency,” he said. “I’m doing an emergency landing. We’re clear to land but we won’t make the runway. We have lost both engines.”
Witnesses said the wing clipped a car, dragged it, and crashed into a wall along the highway.
The plane, which took off from the airport at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, was scheduled to land in Naples when Murphy contacted the tower about the emergency.
An OSU representative said the plane was not affiliated with the university, and had no further information about it. The plane was scheduled to fly back to Fort Lauderdale on Friday evening.
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