A enterprise jet crashed in a neighbourhood in Florida on Sunday, killing all 9 individuals on board, the US transport secretary has said.

The crash occurred close to Cresthaven, some 9 miles (14 km) from Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in the rich enclave of Palm Beach County, around 12:50 EST (17:50 GMT).

Images present a massive crater in the center of a multi-lane highway, with hearth and particles from the Learjet 60 plane scattered across it, but nobody on the floor was damage.

The plane had departed from Austin, Texas, and was headed to the Bahamas, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a assertion.

Flight evaluation signifies that the jet was plummeting tons of of toes per second before crashing.

In air site visitors management audio recorded moments before the crash, a voice from the cockpit can be heard saying the airplane was descending at a price of 10,000ft (3,048m) per minute.

The crew member can then be heard declaring an emergency, yelling “we are in an overspeed condition descending 20,000ft per minute”, before saying, “we are going to crash into the ground”.

About 35 seconds after the preliminary mayday announcement, the last comment from the cockpit was “we’re out of time”.