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.” 3

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“Yeah, we got burning smoke … l

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