Oakland Park, FLA small plane crash took place this morning when a twin engine Cessna plunged into a house in Oakland Park, FL at 11:16 a.m., shortly after taking off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.
Currently, no reports of injuries, deaths or survivors on the ground are available as the authorities do not know if anyone was in the house. Nor do officials know how many passengers were aboard the plane.
The Broward County Fire department is on the scene dealing with the fire and downed power lines. About 1,644 customers in the neighborhood are without power, as the authorities requested the power be temporarily shut off for safety reasons. Latest reports suggest that 3 houses may be affected, as the plane crashed and literally sliced one small bungalow in half, with the houses on either side affected by burning debris.
The plane, registered with Sebring Air Charter, may have been headed to Fenandina Beach, near Jacksonville. Staff at Allied Advertising, located just north of the crash site, reported seeing the plane go down. "We saw the plane turn sideways, and then it just nosedived," he told the Sun Sentinel, a local Florida paper. Then he began to see smoke rise from the area. "It's not something you see every day," he said.
This crash is the latest of several that have occurred in the area in the past few years and residents are notably upset by it. "They need to stop flying here," neighborhood resident Kerrie Interlandi told the Sun Sentinel.