A private plane headed to the Bahamas from Texas crashed in Palm Beach county and exploded on impact Sunday

Investigators are searching for the cause of a plane crash in a heavily populated area of Palm Beach county, Florida, that killed all nine people onboard.

The private Learjet 60, with the tail number N722BD, was en route from Austin-Bergstrom international airport in Texas to North Eleuthera airport in the Bahamas on Sunday when it suddenly plummeted out of the sky.