Doorbell Cam Captures Fatal FL Plane Crash
By Theresa Braine
Source New York Daily News
A boy traveling with his mother in an SUV struck by a plane in Florida has died in the fiery accident, which was caught on a doorbell camera across the street.
The 3 p.m. crash in Pembroke Pines also claimed the lives of both people on board, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.
“We heard like a bomb, like a tremendous noise, and everything was on fire, and it dived into a car,” neighbor Anabel Fernandez told WFOR-TV. “I live right here. I walk with my babies every day. The plane could have got us all. I am in shock.”
Fernandez’s doorbell camera caught the whole thing — the SUV driving down the street, the sudden appearance of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza diving from the sky and smashing into the vehicle, which careens down the street as the craft keeps going and erupts into a ball of fire, leaving a streak of flaming fuel in its wake.
The woman and her young son, whose age and identity were not divulged, were rushed to the hospital with what police said were traumatic injuries. The woman was discharged but had serious injuries, Pembroke Pines Fire Chief Marcel Rodriguez told the Sun Sentinel.
The plane crashed just after takeoff from North Perry Airport on Monday around 3 p.m., reported the Miami Herald. While it wasn’t clear what caused the horrific accident, authorities speculated that a mechanical problem could have caused the plane to clip a power line, Rodriguez told the Sun Sentinel.
Police, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the crash, the Miami Herald said.
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