Video taking off 17x its usual first day

A whistle, then a boom: witness recalls fatal Florida jet crash

CBS Mornings brings together eyewitness accounts, dashcam footage and emergency radio calls from the Learjet that crashed in Greenacres.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 246,290 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (14,460).

Video shows moment jet crashed into Florida road, killing 9 onboard

"We heard the whistle and the boom, and you could feel it in the car," witness Aki Kuusisto tells CBS Mornings. His account brings the impact beyond what the dashcam shows: a private jet descending nose-first onto a busy Florida street.

All nine people aboard died, officials said. Cristian Benavides reports from Greenacres, where another witness, Phillip Cruz, describes a noise loud enough to shake his house. Hundreds of nearby residents were displaced.

The flight was traveling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas. In air traffic control recordings, a crew member reports icing and turbulence before declaring an emergency and describing a rapid descent and an overspeed condition.

Former NTSB chair and CBS News transportation safety expert Robert Sumwalt explains that ice buildup can make an aircraft difficult to control. That explanation identifies a danger, not an established cause of this crash; Benavides also outlines the investigation ahead.

The report has reached about 185,000 views before its first full day is over, far beyond the channel's usual audience for a Short. Alongside the crash footage, CBS Mornings preserves the witnesses' accounts of how the impact sounded and felt from nearby homes and cars.

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