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PALM BEACH COUNTY / UPDATE

Learjet Crash Update: NTSB Go-Team Is Headed to Palm Beach County, a Monday Briefing Is Set, and About 600 Residents Will Be Relocated

The evening update on Sunday's Palm Beach County Learjet crash: the NTSB said on X it is launching a go-team, with investigators arriving Sunday and Monday morning and a media briefing set for Monday in West Palm Beach. Officials at a news conference with Gov. Ron DeSantis reported no one on the ground killed or injured, and about 600 residents of a nearby mobile home community are expected to be relocated while the investigation continues.

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Learjet Crash Update: NTSB Go-Team Is Headed to Palm Beach County, a Monday Briefing Is Set, and About 600 Residents Will Be Relocated (Jacksonville Watch News)

The federal investigation into Sunday's Palm Beach County Learjet crash is now formally underway, and Monday will bring its first public briefing. The National Transportation Safety Board said on X that it is launching a go-team, with investigators arriving at the site Sunday and Monday morning, and that it will hold a media briefing in West Palm Beach on Monday, with the time and location still to be announced, according to the evening update compiled by Radar Contact from the NTSB's post and WPTV's reporting, opened and read directly by the desk this run.

The ground picture, as officials gave it Sunday evening, held: at a news conference with Gov. Ron DeSantis, officials said they had no reports of anyone on the ground being killed or injured, the update states. About 600 residents of a nearby mobile home community are expected to be relocated while the investigation continues. The New York Post's evening file, also read this run, carried Commissioner Joel Flores's stated priority - making sure affected residents have shelter and food by nightfall - and DeSantis's account that debris was spewed over a significant distance as a result of the crash.

What has not changed, and what the desk will not move ahead of the investigators on, is just as clear in the evening files. The cause is unknown and the NTSB has released no findings. The identities of the nine people aboard had not been released as of the 6:10 p.m. Eastern update. The confirmed frame remains the FAA's: a Learjet 60 crashed at about 12:50 p.m. near Cresthaven, between Cresthaven Boulevard and 10th Avenue North in the Greenacres area, on a flight from Austin-Bergstrom to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said all nine aboard were killed.

This file is the evening update to the desk's breaking story SQ-20261101-058, not a retelling of it: the new material is the NTSB go-team and its Monday West Palm Beach briefing, the relocation expectation for about 600 nearby residents, and officials' evening statement that no ground deaths or injuries had been reported. The desk reports the descent and weather material only as investigators' open questions, exactly as the evening files frame them - no cause is asserted here.

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FLORIDA ELECTION 2026 / CLOSED

Early Voting Is Over in Florida: More Than 5.2 Million Ballots Are Already In, and Election Day Is All That's Left

Florida's early voting closed Sunday evening with more than 5.2 million of the state's more than 13 million registered voters having already cast a ballot, according to the University of Florida figures carried in the evening reports. In Hillsborough County, over 40 percent of voters have already turned out - which means the nearly 60 percent who haven't are Tuesday's election.

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