00:00We do want to get to the latest on that Tuesday night plane crash in Laredo
00:04that killed one of the most influential leaders in Austin's tech community.
00:08The Austin-based startup Accelerator Capital Factory confirmed its co-founder and CEO, John.
00:14Capital Factory's co-founder, oh my God.
00:16...died when the business jet crashed onto a highway.
00:20Yes, this is a business jet, a planet jet this looks like.
00:24Tracking data from flight radar.
00:26Oh my God.
00:27...as a plane took off from San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, yesterday evening to Austin when it diverted to...
00:33Oh my God.
00:35From here to here.
00:37Oh my God.
00:38It was just a few inches away from its destination.
00:42...the Federal Aviation Administration says the jet crashed onto the Laredo Highway just before 10 p.m.
00:48Authorities say the pilot and air traffic controllers lost contact with each other before the plane went down.
00:53This is the plane disruption footage.
00:55...videos from witnesses show emerging...
00:57Live.
00:58This is live video from witnesses.
01:00...cruise and bystanders helping people get off the plane as it burned.
01:04Five other passengers were on board.
01:07They were all taken to the hospital.
01:09We are...
01:09Oh my God.
01:10Jarya Garcia is recording the video.
01:13...to get information on who they are at this hour.
01:16One woman told CNN some of the passengers were kids and that her husband helped pull them out.
01:22I was thinking, oh my God, this thing...
01:24This is the suspect, yes.
01:26It's just going to explode.
01:28The fire was getting bigger and bigger by the minute.
01:30And so that was my concern because there was a lot of people helping the people inside.
01:36When they opened the door, the first thing...
01:38Maybe, she was so clever, she is so clever, she is just wearing this thing and they did not even
01:44blur on the news.
01:45The kids said, help me, help me.
01:48My husband said it was very dramatic.
01:50It was something that she would never forget.
01:54Oh my God.
01:55During a briefing this morning, Laredo's mayor said it was, quote, nothing short of a miracle that the crash didn't
02:01end in more than one death.
02:03The city's police chief noted there is a hotel just a couple of feet away.
02:06This is bad, man.
02:08You saw the video from this highway, from here to here, and this is the half of the train, and
02:12this is the half.
02:13Just bang here, my God.
02:15...from where the plane crashed.
02:17Meantime, tributes to Joshua Barrick.
02:19It is from Capital Factory.
02:21Okay, this leader of Capital Factory killed in the plane crash.
02:25Their statement.
02:26...this afternoon, in the statement announcing his death, a spokesperson for Capital Factory called him a visionary force, a mentor
02:33and champion for tech and startups in Texas.
02:36Yes.
02:36...that Bayer dedicated his life to, quote, helping entrepreneurs...
02:39My God, I mean, man, this is so heartbreaking.
02:43...ideas into reality.
02:44Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett from Austin posted a picture of he...
02:49This is the person who died.
02:50Yes, this was the Austin tech leader.
02:53...beared together on social media this afternoon, calling him, quote, the driving force in Austin's tech story.
03:01There are still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding that crisis.
03:05Yes, there are so many things coming back, and please...
03:08The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are on scene in Laredo investigating why that jet went down.
03:14The FAA says it typically releases a preliminary report within one business day.
03:19One business day, that's a good one.
03:20We'll be updating you as we learn more.
03:22Thank you, thank you, man.
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