3 killed after plane drops 12,000 feet in under a minute

Three people were killed after a plane plummeted 12,000 feet in under a minute and crashed into the Michigan woods, according to officials.

The twin-engine Hawker 800 exploded into a fireball when it went down outside of Lansing around 5 p.m. Thursday during a test run after just undergoing repairs, Fox 17 reported.

“Stall, recovery, stall, recovery!” the panicked pilot could be heard radioing for help in his final moments as the plane went down, according to audio recordings obtained by the Daily Mail.

An air traffic controller asked the pilot his altitude — but there was no response. The controller then requested other planes in the area to report whether they could see the plane or “smoke or anything like that” because they “lost him.”

“Yeah, we got burning smoke … looks like there’s a road just to the south of where that smoke is coming from,” another pilot responded moments later.

No one on board survived. Officials have not yet identified the victims.

The plane dropped a whopping 12,000 feet in under a minute, according to flight data.

The cause of the crash is still unknown, but the plane, which was registered in Mexico, had just undergone maintenance at Battle Creek Executive Airport at Kellogg Field some 70 miles away from the crash site.

The airport’s aviation director, Phil Kroll, said the plane had landed at the airport and undergone repairs while grounded, but couldn’t say what kind of repairs were done. The plane was doing a test flight when it crashed, he said.

“They were just testing out some systems and that’s when the problem occurred,” Kroll told Fox 17.

Local authorities and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the crash.

The FAA did not respond to The Post’s request for additional information, citing lack of funding due to the ongoing government shutdown.