NTSB issue update on Florida Learjet crash as they have 'completed its on-scene investigative activities'
The National Transportation Safety Board has completed its on-scene investigative activities regarding the Learjet 60 crash on November 1.
However, the investigation of the excavation of the impact site remains ongoing, the NTSB said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"The cleared areas include Green Acres Mobile Home Community, Reading Truck, Silver Oaks Plaza, Value Store It Self Storage and John I. Leonard High School," the statement confirmed.
Elsewhere, the NTSB revealed that '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.'
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Some of these recovered parts have been transported to NTSB labs in Washington D.C. for 'closer inspection.'
Once again, the NTSB are asking those who have found or come across debris from the crash site to not move, alter, or dispose of the parts. Instead, they should contact the NTSB to arrange its recovery.
The update come after authorities released recordings of the 911 calls made after the jet carrying nine people crashed into a residential area of Greenacres, Florida. It was later confirmed that all nine people onboard tragically died.
In the calls, obtained by NBC6, one caller told authorities that they 'felt their house shake' before running outside after hearing an explosion.
"I think an airplane, a rocket, something fell from the sky," one caller told the dispatcher.
The jet, which took off from Austin, Texas, came down at around 12:50 p.m. ET, about 7 miles southwest of West Palm Beach, leaving a crater in the roadway and thick black smoke over the site as rain pounded the area.
The plane was heading for Bahamas before it tragically crashed.
During a press conference on November 3, it was revealed that main piece of the Learjet 60 separated from the aircraft before impact.
"Yesterday, the majority of the aircraft’s left elevator was located in three pieces in a range of 1.3-3.8 miles away from the accident site," National Transportation Safety Board Member Tom Chapman revealed.
The elevator, according to Chapman, is located on the tail of the plane, and controls the up and down pitch of the aircraft.
During the conference, Chapman confirmed that the Transportation Disaster Assistance (TDA) are continuing to work with family members, as well as displaced residents.
Among those killed in the disaster were pilot Jeff Gregory, 55, and co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20.
Passengers Adam Robinson, 45, his wife, ceramicist Helen Sharp, 40 and their children Emma, four, and Charlie, two, also tragically died in the crash.
Their nanny Anita Maria Cetina, and another couple, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr also lost their lives.
Kiesha Dosanjh
