Harrowing new video has emerged of the moment a private jet slammed onto a busy Florida highway , killing the two pilots before a flight attendant and two passengers escaped from the burning wreckage.
The Bombardier Challenger 600, carrying five people, lost its two engines and crashed onto Interstate 75 around 3:15 p.m. Friday while trying to land at the nearby Naples airport.
Dashcam video shows it descending rapidly over the highway as cars continue driving in the same direction — before it suddenly crashes and erupts in a ball of flames.
Cars are seen approaching the scene and then pulling over as a cloud of black smoke billows from the aircraft.
“I was wondering, ‘What is that?’” Miami trucker Alfonso del Nodal told NBC Miami of his dashcam footage. “Then I realized it was a plane coming down, and then in a matter of seconds, it crashed.”
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Del Nodal said he pulled over and tried to help.
“But an explosion came and first thing that came to my mind was 9/11,” he told the outlet. “Then we heard, ‘Bam! Bam!’ and I saw three people get out.”