Learjet 60 crash Florida: What happened in the mysterious final 60 seconds as $2 million jet plunged at 32,000 feet per minute?

Air traffic control has revealed what happened in the final 60 seconds as a business jet crashed in South Florida and plunged at 32,000 feet per minute.. leaving at least nine people dead. "Holy f***, we're out of time, "a female crew member aboard the Learjet 60 can be heard screaming to an air traffic controller in the last moments before the plane nose-dived straight into the ground about 1 p.m. Sunday. Prior to this, the pilot is heard reporting moderate turbulence and “light, clear ice that is manageable” to the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center.

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Pilot's last words as Learjet 60 crashed

The last and haunting words of the pilot who was on Learjet 60, which had taken off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas and was headed to North Eleuthera Airport in The Bahamas, has now gone viral on social media. “We’re descending 8,000 - mayday, mayday,” the pilot radioed in audio obtained by Sky News and CNN. “We’re descending 10,000 feet per minute.”

“We are in an overspeed condition descending 20,000 feet per minute,” the pilot said, adding, “We’re going to crash into the ground,” according to the news agency. The last words heard from the cockpit were, “We’re out of time,” around 35 seconds after the initial mayday announcement was made, the female pilot said in a loud chilling scream.

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“November two bravo delta, I’m here with you, talk to me,” the controller replied. “We are descending 22,000 feet, and we are banking, 60 degrees … look outside,” the crew member replied, before uttering the haunting last message.

Learjet Florida cash: Here's what happened

The private jet, believed to be worth $2 million, was en route from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas when it smashed into the Greenacres mobile home community.

Videos captured the plane diving toward the ground before it burst into a huge fireball, leaving a crater at the crash site.

The jet hit a tree and knocked down power lines. The crash was so loud that one witness said it “sounded like a missile,” according to Aviation 24/7.

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The crash site is about four miles south of an airport in West Palm Beach. US President Donald Trump had left the airport more than an hour before the crash, CNN reported.

The Learjet 60 was registered to a private company called LR60271 LLC, based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Authorities have confirmed “multiple fatalities” but have not yet said how many people were killed or injured, including those on the ground.

The plane crashed in Greenacres, a community of mobile and modular homes near Palm Springs. Images from the scene show the wreckage of the jet and a damaged mobile home. The crash site is about nine miles from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach County. At the scene, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described the crash to reporters.

“It was a cataclysmic plane crash,” DeSantis said. “It looked like a missile going down and left a big crater on the side of the road.” The FAA has not yet confirmed what caused the crash.

According to FlightRadar24, the plane was manufactured in 2004 and had the tail number: N722BD. The nine victims of the crash have not yet been named. Also, authorities have yet to detail how many of the victims were passengers and how many were members of the plane’s crew.