Footage from Palm Beach County, Florida, shows a plane nosediving into the ground at full speed, cratering the pavement, and dissolving into fire and smoke. It looks unreal. So unreal that some social media users say it's fake.
"The Video You're All Seeing From The 'Plane' Crash Was 100% Ai Generated SOMEONE IS LYING TO US !!!!!! That Was Not An Airplane," read a Nov. 1 X post sharing video of what looks like an AI detection video analysis. "Notice How The Ai Detector Only Detects Ai Generated Content From The 'Plane.'"
Other X posts also questioned the footage's veracity. But the crash happened and the video has been corroborated by legitimate news outlets.
A business jet, a Learjet 60, was headed to the Bahamas from Austin, Texas, when it crashed into a neighborhood near Cresthaven, Florida, at approximately 12:51 p.m. ET, on Nov. 1. Everyone on board died, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Nov. 1.
The authorities have not said what caused the crash, but Tom Chapman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Nov. 2 that the aircraft experienced turbulence and encountered ice. The incident is under investigation, he said at a press conference that day.
Timothy Monville, who's leading the investigation into the crash for the safety board, said the federal agency has "just begun" documenting the incident.
"We have a lot of work to do on scene," he said. "This will be a several-day process, and the biggest obstacle that we're going to have is...
Footage from Palm Beach County, Florida, shows a plane nosediving into the ground at full speed, cratering the pavement, and dissolving into fire and smoke. It looks unreal. So unreal that some so...