911 audio reveals chaos after Learjet crash: 'THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION'
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Dispatchers were flooded with calls on Nov. 1 after a plane crashed in Greenacres, Fla., killing all nine people on board.
Panicked callers described what they had witnessed or heard, with one saying it sounded like an object falling from the sky and another likening the sound to a bomb, according to the 911 audio released by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
‘It was black, it was dark’
“There was an explosion. An airplane or a rocket — something fell from the sky,” one caller said, per Fox News . “We felt our house shake, and then we heard an explosion when we ran outside.”
The caller stepped outside to look and relayed to the dispatcher that she saw sparks and smoke, adding, “it was black, it was dark, like it was burning.”
The woman said she initially thought the loud boom was lightning, but noted she “didn’t hear any, like, actual lightning sound either. It was like… an explosion sound.”
Another caller said it sounded like a “bomb” going off, reporting that the impact caused a crater that still appeared to be on fire.
“I would say take everybody out of it,” the caller said, appearing to suggest that the area should be evacuated.
One woman who said she was a retired police officer reported a motorist near where the plane crashed into the ground, noting she was unsure of his involvement.
The frantic calls came in at around 12:51 p.m., just after the jet crashed.
First responders quickly swarmed the fiery, debris-filled scene, finding a crater where the Learjet 60 nosedived near a shopping plaza and right in front of a mobile home park.
Investigation at the crash site concluded
The aircraft had departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport at about 10:37 a.m. that Sunday morning and was headed for North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas.
The victims were identified as tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, his wife, artist Helen Sharp, their children, Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2, and the kids’ nanny, Anita Maria Cetina. Also killed with the couple’s friends, Charmi Fehr and Rachael Reed, pilot Jeff Gregory and co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras.
The National Transportation Safety Board announced on Sunday it had completed its “on-scene investigative activities” for the crash, but the excavation at the impact site remains ongoing.
“Investigators have recovered and identified portions of the aircraft, including components from both wings, both engines, the flight deck, vertical stabilizer, horizontal stabilizer, left elevator, aileron sections and multiple flap track assemblies,” the NTSB said in a press release.
On Monday, the National Transportation Safety Board announced that the cockpit voice recorder was found.
NTSB investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Learjet 60 that crashed on Nov. 1 near Greenacres, Florida. The CVR was located at the site of initial impact. The CVR is being evaluated in the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, D.C. The… pic.twitter.com/F6SO4SEhW6
— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) November 9, 2026
“NTSB investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Learjet 60 that crashed on Nov. 1 near Greenacres, Florida,” the agency wrote on X. “The CVR was located at the site of initial impact.”
The CVR and all recovered parts have been sent to the NTSB laboratories in Washington, D.C.
The excavation work at the impact site has been completed.