Learjet debris 'ripped through woman’s kitchen' during Florida crash which killed 9

Learjet debris 'ripped through woman’s kitchen' during Florida crash which killed 9 Federal investigators have said the discovery of pieces of a Learjet 60 that crashed in Florida on Sunday miles from the crash site suggests the plane was breaking up before impact Pieces of a Learjet 60 that crashed in Florida, killing all nine people on board, appear to have torn through a woman's roof before landing in her kitchen. The business jet, which was travelling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas, crashed in Greenacres, Palm Beach County, at around 12.50pm local time (5.50pm GMT) on Sunday. Federal investigators said on Tuesday that key pieces of the jet had been found miles from the crash site, which suggested the aircraft was breaking up before it hit the ground, leaving a huge burning crater on the road. Ana Escobar, who lives less than a mile from the crash site on Military Trail, said an object believed to be part of an aircraft fell onto her roof and landed in her kitchen, according to local ABC affiliate WPBF 25 News. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has reportedly recovered the suspected aircraft wreckage as part of its investigation. Meanwhile, Peter DiMaira is reported to have found what appeared to be parts of the aircraft's tail at his workplace, nearly four miles from the crash site. The victims of the crash included entrepreneur Adam Robinson, his wife Helen Sharp and their two young children, Emma and Charlie. Two friends of the couple, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr, and the children's nanny, Anita Maria Cetina, were also killed, alongside the pilot, Jeff Gregory, and his 20-year-old co-pilot, Nathalia Filgueiras. On Tuesday, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Thomas Chapman described the discovery of pieces of the jet some distance from the crash site as a "very significant bit of evidence". "Yesterday [Monday] the majority of the aircraft’s left elevator was located in three pieces within a range of about 1.3 to 3.8 miles away from the accident site," Chapman said. "What that means exactly, in terms of what caused the aircraft to lose control, or whether the loss of this piece was a result of the forces on the aircraft, we don’t know yet." Without the elevator intact, the pilot would not have been able to pull the Learjet out of its nosedive, according to Chapman. He said weather remains a key initial focus of the investigation. The plane began to nosedive after the co-pilot reported ice building up on the aircraft and turbulence as it flew into a rapidly developing thunderstorm cell. Aviation safety expert Jeff Guzzetti told The Associated Press the pieces that broke off the plane were likely a byproduct of the nosedive rather than its cause. Their discovery within a few miles of the crash site suggests the elevator components may have broken away closer to the ground, Guzzetti said. "If those parts would have broken off at altitude, those pieces would be a lot farther away," he added.