Several buildings caught fire, according to Carlstadt Police. The National Transportation Safety Board will inspect the crash scene Tuesday. It handles general aviation and charter flights, according to the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey. A man can be seen running across a parking lot toward the crash site as thick, black smoke spews into the air.
FAA said the flight departed from the Philadelphia International Airport and was heading to Teterboro, which is just west of New York City. It was built in 1981 and is registered to A&C Big Sky Aviation in Billings, Montana.
Learjet Model 35 is a small business jet, which is crewed by a pilot and copilot and carries up to eight passengers.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Carlstadt Mayor Craig Lahullier said all of the town's employees had left for the day, so no one on the ground was hurt. He called it a miracle.
The airport was the scene of a midair crash that killed nine people in 2009, when a single-engine plane and a sightseeing helicopter collided over the Hudson River.
Federal investigators on Tuesday will be at the site of a deadly plane crash at a busy industrial neighborhood in Carlstadt, New Jersey near a small airport, working to determine what caused the aircraft to go down before bursting into flames.
Deputy police Chief Thomas Berta said everyone in the buildings in the industrial area were accounted for.
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Weather forecasters had issued a warning about strong winds minutes before a jet crashed outside New York City, killing two crew members.
Meteorologists forecasted strong winds, including gusts up to 45 miles per hour, for northern New Jersey at the time of the crash.
"Thirty minutes before this plane crashed I was sitting in my vehicle in the exact same spot", he said.
It's not clear if anyone on the ground was injured.
A Carlstadt police spokesman says that the plane appeared to be listing to its side before it went down.
Authorities said the plane's two crew members appear to have been killed, while no one on the ground was injured, despite what looked like widespread carnage with flames and black smoke billowing from at least two buildings and the remnants of the plane.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that the plane, a Learjet 35, which can hold up to seven people, was approaching Runway No. 1 at Teterboro at about 3:30 p.m. when it went down about one-quarter of a mile short of the airport.
In this image provided by the Town of Carlstadt firefighters respond after a jet crashed into a building near Teterboro Airport in Carlstadt, N.J., Monday, May 15, 2017.
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