What happened? Flight tracker details doomed jet that took off in Ohio, crashed in Florida

More details of a doomed flight from Columbus that crashed in southern Florida on Friday are available through an online flight-tracking service.

FlightAware shows the entire path of the chartered Bombardier Challenger 600 jet that crashed near Naples on Friday afternoon after taking off from Ohio State University’s airport with five people aboard.

At least two people died in the plane crash and three survived. The plane collided with two cars on the ground and all of those in the ground vehicles survived, according to authorities.

Here’s what the flight tracker shows us about how the ill-fated flight unfolded.

How did the flight start off?

The FlightAware plane-tracking service shows that the aircraft had not begun its trip in Ohio, but had flown over 1,000 miles to Columbus that morning from Florida.

Just days earlier, the same jet had made a round-trip flight from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico, a resort island near Cancun. That trip, on Wednesday, took about 80 minutes each way, according to FlightAware.

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