By Steve Gorman
(Reuters) -A personal passenger jet with 5 folks aboard crash-landed on a busy Florida freeway and collided with two automobiles on the bottom in a fiery accident on Friday that killed two folks, in response to authorities and information footage from the scene.
The Bombardier Challenger 600 enterprise jet, which took off from Ohio, was on strategy to Naples Airport when the pilot radioed that each the airplane’s turbofan engines had failed, the Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) mentioned in a press release.
Video and images from the scene confirmed the plane engulfed in flames and smoke after it crash-landed on Interstate 75 close to Naples, on southwestern Florida’s Gulf Coast, and got here to relaxation beside a roadside retaining wall.
The Florida Freeway Patrol mentioned the airplane additionally struck a automobile and a pickup truck on the freeway.
The jet was carrying 5 folks, in response to each the NTSB and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Freeway Patrol spokesperson Molly Greatest mentioned three folks from the airplane survived and that two different folks have been killed. However she declined to specify whether or not the 2 fatalities have been from the airplane or the automobiles concerned, saying subsequent of kin have been nonetheless being notified.
The quantity of people that have been using within the impacted automobile and truck was not given.
Miami-based tv station WPLG mentioned the pilot was heard on an air site visitors management audio recording telling the Naples management tower that the airplane had misplaced its two engines and was unable to make it to the airport.
WPLG mentioned the airplane, operated by the Hop-a-Jet constitution aviation provider, was in the end destined for an govt airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the place that firm relies. The flight originated at Ohio State College Airport in Columbus, the NTSB mentioned.
Members of an NTSB crash investigation workforce arrived on the scene inside a couple of hours, an company spokesperson mentioned.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Extra reporting by Dan Whitcomb in Lengthy Seaside and Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward, each in Washington; Modifying by David Ljunggren and Sandra Maler)
