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Duffy: "All 9 people on board were killed" in Florida Learjet crash

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Official post · not independently verified. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote about "Today's plane crash in Palm Beach County, Florida": "At 12:50 PM ET, a Learjet 60 crashed in a neighborhood near Cresthaven, FL" and "All 9 people on board were killed". He wrote that the aircraft "departed from Austin, Texas, and was headed to the Bahamas". The NTSB wrote that it "is launching a go-team to investigate Sunday’s crash of a Learjet 60 airplane in Lake Worth Beach, Florida" and that a "Media briefing will be held in West Palm Beach on Monday." On X: 3,485,146 views and 2,670 reposts as of Mon 2 Nov, 04:12 ET.

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