Plane en route to Jamaica for hurricane relief crashes in Florida – reports
A small plane en route to Jamaica for hurricane relief efforts crashed in a Florida neighbourhood on Monday morning, according to US media reports.
CBS News reports that the plane crashed about 10:20am in Coral Springs.
It said the Beechcraft King Air twin-turboprop plane took off from the airport about 10:14 am en route to Jamaica before crashing into a man-made pond in the community, damaging trees and a fence in the backyard of a home in the process, according to a spokesperson at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.
Emergency crews are said to be now on the scene.
There were no reported casualties up to publication time.
The plane was reportedly heading to Jamaica for relief efforts related to Hurricane Melissa which made landfall in the island on October 28, leaving a trail of destruction in some sections of the country.
