Nine lives lost in seconds. A private jet, bound for paradise, fell like a missile from the sky just miles from the US President's front door.

This is absolutely harrowing. According to cbinews.tv, all nine people on board a Learjet 60 were killed on Sunday when it crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Cresthaven, Palm Beach County - less than seven miles from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has called it a "horrific tragedy". Governor Ron DeSantis, at the scene, said it looked "like a missile going down." Miraculously, no one on the ground was hurt, but around 600 people had to be evacuated from a nearby mobile home park where the jet created a burning crater.

So what happened? The jet had left Austin, Texas, heading for the Bahamas. Chilling audio from LiveATC.net captures the crew battling the weather - reporting moderate turbulence, "managing the ice" and "picking up precipitation". Then the mayday: "We're descending 10,000 feet per minute." Seconds later, "We're going to crash into the ground."

This isn't just about proximity to power. Trump had left Mar-a-Lago on Air Force One just an hour earlier. The Learjet 60 is a workhorse business jet, but it has a history of icing-related incidents, and storms were reported over Florida at the time. This raises urgent questions about weather routing for private jets in Florida's volatile storm season.

The FAA and the NTSB have now taken over. What happens next? They’ll recover the black boxes, analyse that terrifying vertical descent seen in unverified videos, and examine whether ice build-up caused a catastrophic loss of control. A preliminary report is expected in weeks.

A community shaken, nine families devastated, and a stark reminder of how unforgiving the sky can be.

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