Eerie video reveals charred crater left behind after fatal ‘ghost plane’ crash in Virginia

( NYPost )

Eerie new video shows the charred crater left behind by the “ghost plane” crash that killed a New York real estate agent, her 2-year-old daughter and two others on a mountain in rural Virginia over the weekend.

Aerial footage of the site at first reveals a lush, green, mountainous area in Raphine about 160 miles southwest of DC — then in the middle of the wooded area, burned treetops where the plane took a near-nosedive crash Sunday afternoon.

A direct view from above also shows downed trees and burned grass throughout the scene, where investigators on the ground are struggling to gather evidence and clues from the pulverized wreckage.

There was no visible sign of pieces of the private Cessna plane, which officials said was completely destroyed in the crash.

The scar in the wooded area matches the depiction by first responders, who on Sunday described the site as a “crater” where they found essentially four identifiable pieces of the plane, with one worker saying, “There was nothing really bigger than your arm.”

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator Adam Gerhardt told reporters Monday that the “highly fragmented” wreckage and the fact that the scene is extremely remote in a heavily wooded, mountainous region makes it “a very challenging accident site.”

Officials believe that the fatal flight ran out of fuel and crashed in the remote area after flying on autopilot when the pilot and passengers passed out, possibly from a catastrophic drop in pressure that depleted the craft’s oxygen.

All of those aboard were killed: Hamptons realtor Adina Azarian, 49, daughter Aria, nanny Evadnie Smith and pilot and married dad of three Jeff Hefner.

The two women and baby girl were flying from Tennessee to Long Island on a private plane owned by Azarian’s adoptive parents, John and Barbara Rumpel, business people and Republican donors.

The passengers were returning to East Hampton after visiting the Rumpels in North Carolina, but their flight never made an attempt to descend at MacArthur Airport , instead making a nearly 180-degree turn back to Tennessee, said Jeff Guzzetti, a former Federal Aviation Administration and NTSB investigator, to the Washington Post.

After the plane entered restricted airspace over Washington, the government deployed six F-16 fighter jets and made the rare call to allow them to fly at supersonic speeds to catch up to the wayward Cessna — causing a sonic boom that rattled residents across the region.

One of the military pilots was able to peer into the Cessna and saw Hefner slumped over in the left seat — about 10 minutes before the plane crashed around 3:30 p.m.

Rumpel, 75, who mourned the loss of his daughter and granddaughter, echoed experts’ theory that the flight suffered a loss of pressurization.

“They all just would have gone to sleep and never woke up,” he told the Washington Post.

Rumpel, a business magnate who gave $250,000 to President Donald Trump’s failed 2020 re-election campaign, told the newspaper Monday that he and his wife adopted Azarian, a successful Hamptons and Manhattan realtor, nine years ago, when she was 40.

Rumpel said Azarian reminded them of their late daughter, Victoria, 19, who died in a scuba-diving accident in 1994.

The FAA and NTSB are investigating the cause of the plane crash, with officials noting they would have a preliminary report ready within 10 days.