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East Coast Jets mourns former pilot Jeffrey Gregory after Florida crash

CBS Philadelphia's report connects the captain to Allentown and details investigators' difficulty recovering wreckage from a roadway crater.

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CBS Philadelphia Story of November 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 170,535 views a day, 96 times a normal first day on this channel (1,774).

Jeffrey Gregory, pilot in deadly Florida plane crash, had ties to Pennsylvania

The flight left Austin for the Bahamas but crashed in Palm Beach, Florida, killing Capt. Jeffrey Gregory and eight others aboard. The FAA identified Gregory as the pilot, CBS Philadelphia reports.

East Coast Jets in Allentown, Pennsylvania, confirmed that Gregory previously worked for the company and issued a condolence statement. That connection is the focus of the station's short report, which reached about 140,000 views in its first 16 hours, far beyond its usual audience for Shorts.

The report also includes investigators' account of the recovery work. NTSB board member Tom Chapman said there was evidence suggesting the aircraft may have broken up before impact, a possibility investigators were still examining.

Lead investigator Timothy Monville described the immediate difficulty: "The biggest obstacle that we're going to have is recovering the major wreckage from the impacted crater on the roadway."

CBS Philadelphia also covers the search for the aircraft's flight recorder. The report does not establish what caused the crash.

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