A small jet crashed into an apartment building and killed nine people on Tuesday, according to authorities.

The plane was carrying seven associates of Pebb Enterprises, located at 7900 Glades Road in Boca Raton.

The Hawker 700 jet hit a four-unit building, erupted into an immense fire and killed everyone on board, including the pilot and copilot. The building was empty when the crash occurred.

Eight of the nine passengers have been identified and their names are being released by family members. Two of them were members of Congregation B’nai Israel in Boca.

Thomas Virgin, 31, an FAU graduate, is among those who died in the crash. Virgin was the director of construction and development at Pebb. He had a new wife and a 4-month-old baby girl.

Diana Suriel, 32, was also an FAU graduate who was on the plane. She was a wife and mother to her 15-month-old daughter.

Also identified were Jared Weiner (35), president of Pebb, Ori Rom (32), Nick Weaver (36), Gary Shapiro (35), Diane Smoot (50) and one of the pilots, Andres Chavez.

The crash is still under investigation, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. It appears that the pilot did not make a distress call, according to Jim Silliman of the NTSB.

The jet was set to arrive at Akron Fulton International Airport but turned left, skimmed trees and powerlines and smashed into the apartment building 2 miles from the airport.

The airport did not have towers to communicate with the jet. But the pilot of another plane landing just before the Hawker said the two planes were on the same radio frequencies, and a distress call was never placed.

The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder has been recovered and sent to an NTSB lab in Washington.

Silliman is investigating the accident and believes weather could be the cause. It was a foggy, rainy day in Akron.

The associates were on the second day of a six-day business trip they took to look at property in the Midwest for prospective shopping centers. They departed Monday morning from Fort Lauderdale, making stops in Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri before landing in Cincinnati that night. Tuesday morning they stopped in Dayton, Ohio, before crashing on their track to Akron.

Akron was supposed to be their last stop before flying back to their homes in South Florida.

“Our hearts are broken this morning with the news of the tragic accident that took the lives of two principals and five employees at Pebb Enterprises,” a statement posted on the company’s website said. “We are shocked and deeply saddened for the families, colleagues and friends of those who perished.”