A plane carrying relief for victims of Hurricane Melissa, which slammed Jamaica and caused billions in damage, has crashed into a lake in Florida.<\/p>\n
The light plane took off in Broward County, which is located in the Miami metro area, before crashing into a river next to homes in Coral Springs.<\/p>\n
It is understood that the plane clipped trees while flying over the residential area before it came crashing down into the waterway.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Emergency responders raced to the scene of the crash, which occurred on Monday morning (local time), however, efforts to locate survivors proved unsuccessful.<\/p>\n A recovery mission to locate the remains has been taken over by local police.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do have our police department here with their divers as well, they\u2019ll be conducting a recovery mission shortly, we were unable to find any victims or any large pieces of fuselage on our initial dive,\u201d Coral Springs Deputy Fire Chief Mike Moser said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have not found an entire plane yet, we believe that it may be broken into smaller pieces, we don\u2019t know yet of course, this is very preliminary.\u201d<\/p>\n Footage of the crash spread quickly on social media.<\/p>\n One angle showed the aircraft crashing into the lake, with water sent flying as the plane made impact at speed.<\/p>\n Parts of the plane, after hitting the water, ended up in a residents backyard, landing meters away from a pool.<\/p>\n It is understood no homes were damaged in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plane carrying relief for victims of Hurricane Melissa, which slammed Jamaica and caused billions in damage, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,2957,1720],"class_list":{"0":"post-276460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories","14":"tag-usa","15":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}