HORRIFYING footage has captured the moment three survivors flee the burning wreckage of a private jet that crashed into a Florida highway, killing two.
Crew member Sydney Ann Bosmans, 27, and passengers Aaron Baker, 35, and Audra Green, 23, were seen narrowly escaping the inferno on Friday.
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Three survivors were filmed running away from the exploding plane
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The fleeing man and woman screamed at the videographer that the pilots were still inside
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The plane hit a car that fell onto the road before exploding into a fireball Credit: X/JoeBlow_808
The plane crashed on Interstate 75 near Collier County, about 46 miles southeast of Naples, when the pilot attempted an emergency landing.
Pilot Edward Daniel Murphy, 50, and co-pilot Ian Frederick Hofmann, 65, were killed when the jet’s engines failed and the plane fell to the road, exploding on impact.
The heart-stopping video, captured by passing motorist Kyle Cavaliere just moments after the crash, shows the plane on fire with heavy black clouds of smoke billowing from it.
Three people can be seen running from the fiery mess.
“Is there anyone else in there?” Cavaliere yells as he runs to help.
“Yes, yes, our pilots,” screams one woman.
When asked if the pilots were alive, the distraught woman replied: “I don’t know. I don’t know much more.”
Five people were on the plane when it crashed, and the three survivors were taken to hospital, but their condition is unknown.
The sickening sound of the last moments just before the disaster has been discovered.
“Hop-A-Jet 823, lost both engines, emergency,” one of the pilots is heard calmly telling the airport controller.
‘We’re not going to make it to the runway,’ pilot says as audio from plane crash on I-75 reveals moments before fiery landing kills two
“I’m making an emergency landing. We’re ready to land, but we won’t make it to the runway. We lost both engines.”
The sound then died down.
The Bombardier Challenger 600 crashed at about 3:15 p.m., just two hours after taking off from Ohio State University Airport in Columbus.
It was trying to land at the nearby Naples airport when it lost both engines, authorities said.
Witnesses said he was trying to land on the I-75 freeway, but his wing caught the car and dragged it before crashing into a wall, leading to the fatal explosion.
Brianna Walker, 26, described the horror of seeing the plane drag the car in front of hers.
“We were seconds away from the car in front of us,” she said.
“The wing crushed this car. . . . The plane was inches above our heads. It made a sharp right turn and skidded across the highway.”
The witness said that flames shot out of the plane, followed by a big bang. “The feeling is unreal, like in a movie,” she added.
“There were seconds between our deaths.”
The investigation into the cause of the accident is ongoing.
The National Transportation Safety Board asked the public to provide video of the jet before it crashed to determine the cause.
The devastated family of co-pilot Hofmann called him a “hero”.
“His final moments, calmly talking to ATC while trying to save the passengers and crew in the desperate situation of losing both engines at low altitude, are what we will always remember him for,” the family said in a statement to Fox 4.
“We know our father died a hero doing his best to save everyone he could on the plane. We ask for your prayers at this difficult time.”
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Huge plumes of black smoke filled the blocked highwayCredit: AP
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Traffic was at a standstill as firefighters rushed to help the injured and put out the flamesCredit: FDOT
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‘Hero’ Ian Hofmann, co-pilot, dies in crash Credit: Family Handout
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The pilots called for help saying they ‘won’t make it’ to the runwayCredit: X/JoeBlow_808
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