Tag: Aviation safety — Today News Brief

"We're out of time": Learjet 60 nose-dives into Palm Beach County neighborhood, killing all 9 on board

Photo: dashcam via @Breaking911 on X (the Learjet moments before impact, Palm Beach County, 1 November 2026)

NEW World · 23:34

"We're out of time": Learjet 60 nose-dives into Palm Beach County neighborhood, killing all 9 on board

A Learjet 60 business jet flying from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas nose-dived into a neighborhood in Palm Beach County, Florida, around 12:50 p.m. local time on Sunday, 1 November, and exploded in a huge fireball. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said all nine people on board were killed. Air traffic control audio published online captures the crew's last calls: a mayday, a report of a rapid descent and the words "we're out of time".

Source: NTSB media briefing (Tom Chapman, Timothy Monville); Federal Aviation Administration; US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy; Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office; Palm Beach County Fire Rescue; AP; NBC News; WPBF; WPTV; Palm Beach Post; USA Today; Air Data News / Flightradar24; FAA aircraft registry; BNO News; BocaNewsNow; CBS12; BBC; video: @Breaking911, @thenewarea51, @TheJadeWarwick and @nicksortor on X

Two helicopters collide while landing near Everest in Nepal, Indian tourist killed

Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: a helicopter near Tengboche in the Everest region, October 2009, not one of the aircraft in Tuesday's collision) / Source: Wikimedia Commons

BREAKING World · 13:00

Two helicopters collide while landing near Everest in Nepal, Indian tourist killed

Two helicopters collided as they were landing at the same helipad in Pheriche, on the main trekking route to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, on Tuesday morning, 3 November. A 47-year-old Indian tourist from Chennai was killed, Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority said. A New Zealander travelling with him and the pilots of both helicopters were injured. The cause is not yet known and an investigation has begun.

Source: Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal via The Kathmandu Post and Kathmandu Pati; Reuters via ABC News; Hindustan Times; AeroTime; video tip: @TheInsiderPaper on X