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Just-released 911 calls captured the desperate moments after a small plane crashed in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood Sunday evening, as neighbors rushed into action. They came armed with sledgehammers, axes and hoses to save a family of four trapped inside the burning aircraft.
Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. “It was nothing short of heroic,” Angelo Castillo, the mayor of Pembroke Pines in Broward County, said Tuesday.
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — A small plane crashed in southern Florida and it was caught on camera. The plane crashed into a tree in a neighborhood in Pembroke Pines on Sunday evening, WFOR reported. Warning, the video below may be disturbing for some viewers. It was a Cessna T337G, according to the Miami Herald.
City leaders and residents in Pembroke Pines are voicing their concerns following this weekend’s plane crash near North Perry Airport, which has been involved in dozens of crashes in recent years.
A Chilean-born nurse has become the first victim to be named after four people were killed in a plane crash at London Southend Airport.Maria Fernanda Rojaz Ortiz, 31, a German citizen born in Chile, was reportedly on her first day as a flight nurse on board the small aircraft when it came down in an explosion after take-off on Sunday afternoon.
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FOX 13 Tampa Bay on MSNSouthwest flight evacuated at Tampa International Airport: OfficialsPassengers boarding a Southwest flight at Tampa International Airport were evacuated early Monday evening. TPA's operations team determined that lightning did not hit the plane or the bridge and the ARFF team also found no issue when checking for smoke. It all happened while storms were rolling through the area earlier Monday evening.
It is understood that the plane was bound for its base in the Netherlands when it crashed, killing four people who were all foreign nationals.
Police say four people died aboard a small plane that crashed shortly after taking off from London Southend Airport.
A teen was arrested for a bomb threat on a Spirit flight in Fort Lauderdale; three others were detained for questioning.