Pieces of jet that crashed in Palm Beach County found miles away from impact site, NTSB says

Pieces of the jet that crashed in Palm Beach County on Sunday killing nine people were found nearly 4 miles away from the crash site, investigators said during a Tuesday news conference.National Transportation Safety Board member Tom Chapman said that the discovery of a part of the tail located that far from the impact crater was an indication that the plane was likely breaking up before it hit the ground.He said parts of the plane were located as far as 3.8 miles from the impact site.This photo shows the impact site of the jet that crashed in Palm Beach County on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026. Nine people on board the jet were killed.Chapman said the tail's elevator was broken into three parts. Without that intact, the pilots would not have been able to pull the Learjet 60 out of its nosedive."The function of the elevator is to control the pitch up and down," he said at the news conference. "At those speeds I don't know that it would've been effective even if it had still been attached to the