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New angle shows what happened to white car after tragic Learjet plane crash
New footage has emerged showing what appears to be the aftermath of a white car's close encounter with the Learjet plane crash in Florida that killed nine people.
The private aircraft was traveling to the Bahamas after departing from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas when it crashed in a residential neighborhood near Cresthaven at 12:50PM on Sunday (November 1).
The tragedy claimed the lives of seven passengers and the aircraft's captain, 55-year-old Jeffrey Gregory, and 20-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras.
New video shows man emerging from white car near crash site
Footage shared on X by user @Mon16tana appears to show a man getting out of a white car near the burning wreckage.
Earlier dashcam footage captured the moment the Learjet plunged toward a roadway, seemingly narrowly missing a white vehicle before erupting into a huge fireball.
A new recording now shows a white car near the impact site, surrounded by scattered debris and flames on the pavement.
A man is seen exiting the car and walking away as others gather near the wreckage.
The person filming can be heard expressing shock at the destruction, saying: "Look at the f***ing ground," while pointing the camera toward the enormous crater left by the aircraft.
Although the clip appears to show the vehicle's occupant escaping, it has not been confirmed whether this is the same white car captured in the original dashcam video.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis initially said authorities had received no reports of any injuries or deaths on the ground.
"It looked like a missile going down. It left a big crater on the side of the road," the governor said. He added that the debris did span a "pretty significant distance".
However, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed on Monday that one person on the ground sustained a leg injury, per CNN.
A family of four among the nine victims identified
It has been confirmed that Austin-based tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, 44, was on board with his wife Helen Sharp, their four-year-old daughter Emma, and their two-year-old son Charlie.
The family was traveling with their nanny, Anita Maria Apellido Cetina, and two close friends, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr. None survived.
As investigators work to establish what caused the disaster, recordings of the aircraft's final communications have revealed the conditions experienced by the pilots.
At a news conference on Monday, the NTSB confirmed that ice began forming on the jet in the middle of moderate turbulence before the plane began losing altitude.
The aircraft was flying at approximately 35,000 feet when the pilots requested permission to climb higher after encountering precipitation.
However, moments later, the jet entered a rapid descent, with the crew reporting an increasingly dangerous rate of descent and an overspeed condition.
In audio captured by LiveATC, Filgueiras can be heard warning air traffic controllers: "We're going to crash into the ground, 722 Bravo Delta."
The audio also captured Captain Jeff Gregory reciting the Lord's Prayer as the emergency unfolded.
"Who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name," he said, as his young co-pilot can be heard screaming: "We're going to crash into the ground."
Co-pilot sent heartbreaking final text to boyfriend
In an interview with The New York Post, Filgueiras' family shared that she sent a text to her boyfriend, Justin, shortly before the aircraft went down.
Her stepfather, Thiago Corteleti, 44, said she contacted him approximately 10 minutes before the crash to warn him about the conditions the plane was experiencing.
"She just said, 'I’ve got turbulence, I’ve got ice,'" Corteleti said.
The young pilot, who had earned her private pilot's license at just 17, had accumulated approximately 1,300 hours of flying experience and had been working as a commercial pilot for nine months.