[Anchor]
A jet has crashed in the U.S. state of Florida, killing all nine people on board. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the exact cause of the accident, and the urgent communications between the cockpit and the control tower at the time have been released.
Reporter Kim Hye-young has the details.
[Reporter]
Along a roadside in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Behind a moving vehicle, something plummets almost vertically from the sky, exploding in a massive fireball.
The aircraft that crashed was a commercial small jet carrying nine people.
All nine occupants died, and the crash site was devastated by the impact of the explosion.
Six hundred residents were evacuated in an emergency.
[Ron DeSantis / Governor of Florida, U.S.: It was truly a catastrophic plane crash. It looked like a missile had struck, and a huge crater was left beside the road.]
Local time on November 1, the doomed flight, which had departed from Austin, Texas, and was heading toward the Bahamas in the Caribbean, reportedly experienced airframe icing and turbulence during the flight.
[Cockpit Personnel: It is minus 47 degrees Celsius (-53°F). We are dealing with the icing, but the turbulence is moderate.]
[Air Traffic Controller: Understood. 722 Bravo Delta. (Omission) Let me know if you need anything else.]
Shortly afterward, the pilot of the accident aircraft declared an emergency, reporting that the plane was plummeting rapidly after gaining altitude.
[Cockpit Personnel: Mayday! Mayday! We are descending at a rate of 10,000 feet per minute (about 50 meters per second)! 722 Bravo Delta, declaring an emergency! The aircraft has exceeded its allowable speed and is descending at 20,000 feet per minute (about 100 meters per second)!]
According to flight tracking websites, the aircraft briefly gained altitude before making a sharp right turn and crashing, with its descent rate at one point exceeding 35,000 feet per minute.
At the time, thunderstorms occurred in various parts of southern Florida, and the aircraft reportedly passed through a thunderstorm zone a few minutes before the crash.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the precise cause of the accident.
Video by Lee Seung-yeol | Graphics by Lim Chan-hyuk and Jeon Yu-geun
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