TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Video captured by a trucker’s dashcam shows the moment a small jet crashed Friday on Interstate 75.
Alfonso Del Nodal, a trucker from Miami, was driving on I-75 near the Naples Airport on Friday when the plane went down, crashing into two cars.
Nodal shared video with WBBH in Fort Myers of the moment of the crash. In the video, the plane can be seen losing altitude in the distance. Eventually, a black plume of smoke can be seen off to the side of the highway.
Two of the five people on board the plane died in the crash, which shut lanes of I-75 down for more than 24 hours.
The pilot told air traffic controllers that both engines had failed.
“We’re clear to land, but we’re not going to make the runway,” the pilot said. “We’ve lost both engines.”
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
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