Nine killed as Learjet crashes near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida

WASHINGTON, Nov 2 — Nine people were killed yesterday when the Learjet they were traveling in plummeted into a neighborhood in southern Florida, just miles from US President Donald Trump’s resort home of Mar-a-Lago, officials said.

Several unverified clips depicting the deadly crash and posted to social media show an aircraft nearly vertical slamming at high speed into the ground and triggering a large fireball, leaving a flaming crater near a busy roadside.

“Today’s plane crash in Palm Beach County, Florida is a horrific tragedy,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement, confirming that all nine people on board were killed.

Duffy said the plane, a Learjet 60, had departed from Austin, Texas and was headed for the Bahamas.

The crash occurred near Cresthaven, a neighborhood in Palm Beach County that is less than seven miles (11 kilometres) from Mar-a-Lago.

Trump himself had been at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday and had departed from the nearby and newly renamed President Donald J Trump International Airport shortly after he boarded Air Force One at 11.55am, about an hour before the crash of the Learjet aircraft.

Storms had been reported in the area, and Trump carried an umbrella as he boarded Air Force One.

“The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate,” the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. — AFP

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社交媒体上发布的几段未经证实的视频片段显示，一架飞机几乎垂直高速撞击地面，引发巨大的火球，在繁忙的公路旁留下一个燃烧的弹坑。

“今天在佛罗里达州棕榈滩县发生的飞机坠毁事件是一场可怕的悲剧，”交通部长肖恩·达菲在一份声明中表示，并确认机上九人全部遇难。

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事故发生在克雷斯特黑文附近，这是棕榈滩县的一个社区，距离海湖庄园不到 7 英里（11 公里）。

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