"The ground shook": witness describes Palm Beach jet crash

CBS LA combines an eyewitness account with dashcam footage as investigators examine the crash that killed everyone aboard.

Channel: CBS LA Story of November 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 48,174 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (3,651).

Deadly plane crash investigation in Palm Beach, Florida

An eyewitness heard the dive and felt the impact before he could accept what had happened. "I didn't want to believe it was a plane," he says in CBS LA's brief report on the fatal private jet crash in Palm Beach, Florida.

The aircraft was traveling from Texas to the Bahamas when the pilot reported turbulence before a rapid descent, the station reports. All nine people aboard died. Dashcam footage shows the jet falling nose-first toward the road, followed by images of smoke and burning debris.

The report turns from the witness's account to emergency vehicles and the large crater left by the impact. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating what caused the crash; the reported turbulence does not establish a cause.

The upload reached about 20,000 views in its opening seven hours, already well beyond the audience a CBS LA Short usually draws across its entire first day.

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The numbers

The crash report passed CBS LA's usual full-day Shorts audience within its first seven hours.

the video's first day

usual first day here

3,651

this video

48,174

subscribers

1,160,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,432,774,564

views per day

326,899

typical day: 661,773

the video

views

20,649

likes

178

comments

13

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

FOX 11 Los Angeles

1,370,000

CBS New York

1,200,000

CBS LA

1,160,000

FOX 13 Tampa Bay

1,080,000

FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth

1,020,000

FOX 5 New York

1,010,000

As of November 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.