Florida jet crash seen from a passing driver's dashcam

FOX 32 Chicago carries the footage alongside a ChicagoLIVE interview with Navy fighter pilot Matthew Buckley.

Channel: FOX 32 Chicago Story of November 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 98,770 views a day, 39 times a normal first day on this channel (2,514).

Private jet crashes in Palm Beach County, Florida

A Texas-to-Bahamas flight ended near a residential area in Palm Beach County on Sunday, killing nine people aboard and forcing hundreds of nearby residents to evacuate, according to officials cited by FOX 32 Chicago.

The station's Short, "Private jet crashes in Palm Beach County, Florida", carries a graphic-content warning. The dashcam view begins on a wet roadway under cloudy skies. An explosion erupts beside the road ahead, followed by dense black smoke as the recording vehicle continues forward. "Something just fell down," the driver says. The footage is credited to Aki Kuusisto via Storyful.

The clip reached about 52,000 views in eight hours, an unusually fast start compared with the station's usual Shorts. It records the impact and immediate aftermath, not an explanation of what caused the crash.

FOX 32 Chicago also brought Matthew Buckley, identified as a U.S. Navy Top Gun adversary F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot, onto ChicagoLIVE to discuss the crash. That separate, longer interview drew an unusually large early audience for the station's regular videos too.

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The numbers

Both the dashcam Short and the separate pilot interview drew audiences well above the station's usual starts for their respective formats.

the video's first day

usual first day here

2,514

this video

98,770

subscribers

487,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

498,560,867

views per day

207,443

typical day: 232,942

the video

views

51,723

likes

525

comments

53

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

FOX 2 Detroit

507,000

FOX 32 Chicago

487,000

KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA

477,000

FOX 35 Orlando

476,000

NBC Chicago

458,000

FOX 29 Philadelphia

430,000

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.