Small plane crashes into house in Broward County. Live coverage from Oakland Park, Florida.
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From the AP:
A small plane crashed into a house shortly after taking off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport Friday morning, slicing the home down the middle into two charred pieces.
Broward County fire officials believe the aircraft is a Cessna 421, which is a twin-engine propeller plane. It wasn’t immediately clear whether anyone was inside the home, or how many people were aboard the plane. Smoke was seen rising from the crash site, and firefighters hadn’t yet contained the fire.
“We’re still trying to get that fire under control,” Broward County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Leljedal told CNN. “We have concerns that some people have to be evacuated from the area.”
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the plane was headed to Fernadina Beach, just outside Jacksonville. A bystander saw the plane go down and alerted authorities, said another sheriff’s spokesperson, Dani Moschella.
FAA records list the plane’s owner as Sebring Air Charter in Tamarac, a Fort Lauderdale suburb. A listed phone number for the owner could not immediately be located.
The crash was at least the third involving the airport, which caters to small planes and jets, in the last five years.
A DC-3 cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff into a residential street near the airport in 2005. The pilot, co-pilot and a passenger all survived. The pilot said at the time they chose the street because it was quiet and wide, and has an abundance of tall palm trees he could run into to slow the plane’s speed.
In 2004, a Piper Cherokee crashed into the roof of an auto body shop shortly after takeoff, killing two people on the plane and critically injuring a third.


