9 dead after small plane crashes into apartment complex on Mogadore Road in Akron, Ohio

Two people were killed when a small jet plane crashed into a home in an Akron, Ohio neighborhood, Tuesday afternoon, a federal source told ABC News. No one was in the home at the time and there appeared to be no injuries on the ground, police said.The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to ABC News that the plane was a Hawker H25 jet and was on its approach to Akron Fulton Airport when it crashed into a building just before 3 p.m.The federal source said that it appeared that the cause of the crash "appears to be mechanical.

Two people were killed when a small jet plane crashed into a home in an Akron, Ohio neighborhood, Tuesday afternoon, a federal source told ABC News.Police said there were "no survivors" after the crash of the plane -- which can hold up to 10 people -- just before 3 p.m.No one was in the home at the time and there appeared to be no injuries on the ground, police said.

7 people with ties to Pebb Enterprises in Boca Raton killed in Ohio jet crash Seven people with ties to a real-estate company in Boca Raton have been killed in a business jet crash in Akron, Ohio.The crash happened Tuesday afternoon.Pebb Enterprises issued a statement Wednesday morning on the crash."Ourhearts are broken this morning with the news of the tragic accidentthat took the lives of two principals and five employees of PebbEnterprises. That has not yet been confirmed.Today investigators will try to determine if weather was a factor in the crash. Everyone on the plane was killed, but no one on the ground was injured.

One of the nine people killed when a Florida-based plane crashed in Ohio Tuesday afternoon has been identified as a woman from Boca Raton.Jeannie Ferraia says her sister Diane Smoot was a passenger on the plane and died when it crashed. We ask for the media’s understanding and cooperation at this time of unimaginable loss and mourning."According to Ferraia, her 50-year-old sister Diane Smoot worked for Boca Raton based real estate company Pebb Enterprises. 

The company has handled millions of dollars in deals in the South Florida area, recently selling the Horizon office building in West Palm Beach, Delray Commons and Shoppes of Delray in Delray Beach, and also recently acquired a $17 million dollar construction loan for Buckingham Plaza in Royal Palm Beach.

"Our first priority is to give our fullest support to the family members and loved ones of our co-workers."Staff Lt. Officials originally believed it was a single-family home that was struck, but it turned out to be a four-unit building, Haymaker said. And additional eight homes nearby have also been evacuated, he said.The National Transportation Safety Board has launched a go team to Akron to investigate the crash and they are expected to give an update this afternoon.A federal source told ABC News on Tuesday that the cause of the crash "appears to be mechanical." Nine people have been confirmed dead after the plane they were flying in crashed into homes in Akron, Ohio, on Tuesday.

Investigators are sharing new information about the voice recorder from inside the cockpit of the plane that crashed in Akron, Ohio, earlier this week.The recording lasts about 30 minutes and the pilot and co-pilot can be heard speaking about the weather and landing conditions, though the quality of the recording is poor.The deadly moment of impact can also be heard on the recording, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said at a press conference this afternoon.

A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says that just before a business jet crashed into an Akron apartment building, an instructor on another plane warned the pilots that weather conditions were barely suitable for landing.Nine people on board the jet, including the two pilots, were killed when it crashed Nov. 10 less than two miles from Akron Fulton International Airport.