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New 911 audio captures terrified Florida witness describing 'apocalyptic' scene after Learjet crash
In the weeks following a $2 million private jet crashing into a mobile home community in Florida, killing nine people, harrowing details about the aftermath of the fatal crash continue to emerge.
At around 1PM on Sunday, November 1, the Learjet 60 nose-dived into the ground, exploding with a huge fireball and creating a massive crater, just nine miles from President Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort.
A young family with two small children, their nanny, and two close friends were killed alongside the pilot and co-pilot.
A frantic 911 call reveals locals thought a rocket had fallen from the sky
While several nearby residents called emergency services to report the tragedy, the audio recording of one woman's desperate plea for help revealed that she thought the crash could have been a number of terrifying things.
At first, the distressed caller said: "There was an explosion."
In the dispatch audio obtained by Fox News Digital, she said: “I think an airplane or rocket, something fell from the sky. We felt our house shake, and then we heard an explosion when we ran outside.
“It was black, it was dark, like burning.”
This recording is certainly not the most terrifying audio that has emerged since the crash. A clip of the final conversation between the 20-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras and an air traffic control operator moments before the crew and passengers hurtled to their deaths has since surfaced.
The call in which the plane's co-pilot begs for help went viral last week
Filgueiras can be heard telling the traffic control center: "We have light clear ice that is manageable and moderate turbulence."
Seconds later, the young pilot asked the person on the other end of the call if they "have any better rides", meaning an alternative route that would allow them to swerve the storm.
The response then said: "The rides improve in my airspace, but you're kinda far out of it."
Things began going wrong in an instant, prompting the pilot to make a "mayday" report to the controller receiving the message.
In the chilling recording, the co-pilot said: “We’re descending 8,000 — mayday, mayday — we’re descending 10,000 feet per minute."
Without taking a breath, she then desperately added: “We are in an overspeed condition, descending 20,000 feet per minute.”
“We’re going to crash into the ground,” she added with a terrified scream.
While an investigation has been launched into the circumstances that led to the fatal crash, the alleged audio recording of the two pilots, Jeff Gregory and Nathalia Gadelha Filgueira communicating with air traffic control appears to reveal that they were advised to avoid the oncoming storm.