A small jet plane carrying six people crashed into a vehicle on a highway in Laredo, Texas, on Tuesday night, leaving one dead, authorities said.
It's unconfirmed whether the person who died was a passenger or someone on the ground, though five first responders were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
Onlookers left their cars to help at the scene in an effort to smash the cockpit windshield and free the passengers, with reports of two people wielding a sledgehammer and a shovel. The aircraft crashed just after 10 p.m., prompting complete road closures near the Texas-Mexico border.
In a video shared by Laredo police, firefighters can be seen putting out the flames and managing the wreckage as the plane lay split over a highway divider. It's not clear what caused the crash of this Austin-bound plane.
The plane was believed to be a Cessna Citation, according to information on Flightaware.
This is a developing story.