ALL RIGHT. JUST A TERRIBLE STORY THERE. AND WE’RE ALSO FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS IN SOUTH FLORIDA RIGHT NOW WHERE A SMALL PLANE CRASHED. THIS IS HAPPENING IN A NEIGHBORHOOD IN CORAL SPRINGS THERE IN BROWARD COUNTY. YOU CAN SEE THE PLANE CLIPPED SOME TREES AND TOOK OUT PART OF A HOME’S BACKYARD FENCE BEFORE CRASHING INTO A POND. YOU CAN ALSO SEE ONE OF THE PLANE’S WHEELS THERE NEXT TO A BACKYARD POOL. WE’RE STILL WORKING TO FIND OUT IF ANYONE WAS HURT HERE, INCLUDING WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PILOT AND WHAT CAUSED THE CRASH. OF COURSE, WE WILL
Plane carrying hurricane relief supplies to Jamaica crashes in Florida neighborhood
Updated: 4:47 PM EST Nov 10, 2025
Two people are dead after a small plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs on Monday morning.Authorities told The Associated Press no victims were located during rescue efforts and said the search has now become a recovery effort that is being handled by local police.Broward County, where the plane took off from and where the crash occurred, is home to a vibrant Caribbean American community that sprang into action to collect relief supplies following Hurricane Melissa. A fierce Category 5 hurricane, Melissa slammed into Jamaica late last month.The crash happened around 10:15 a.m. in the area of the 5000 block of Northwest 57th Way, just west of State Road 7 and south of the Sawgrass Expressway, according to the local NBC station. Coral Springs Fire Department officials said they responded and a dive team performed a preliminary operation but didn’t find any victims.”We do have our police department here with their divers as well, they’ll be conducting a recovery mission shortly, we were unable to find any victims or any large pieces of fuselage on our initial dive,” Coral Springs Deputy Fire Chief Mike Moser said. “We have not found an entire plane yet, we believe that it may be broken into smaller pieces, we don’t know yet of course, this is very preliminary.””Fortunately the plane did not strike any houses when it entered the water,” Moser said.
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. —
Two people are dead after a small plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs on Monday morning.
Authorities told The Associated Press no victims were located during rescue efforts and said the search has now become a recovery effort that is being handled by local police.
Broward County, where the plane took off from and where the crash occurred, is home to a vibrant Caribbean American community that sprang into action to collect relief supplies following Hurricane Melissa. A fierce Category 5 hurricane, Melissa slammed into Jamaica late last month.
The crash happened around 10:15 a.m. in the area of the 5000 block of Northwest 57th Way, just west of State Road 7 and south of the Sawgrass Expressway, according to the local NBC station.
Coral Springs Fire Department officials said they responded and a dive team performed a preliminary operation but didn’t find any victims.
“We do have our police department here with their divers as well, they’ll be conducting a recovery mission shortly, we were unable to find any victims or any large pieces of fuselage on our initial dive,” Coral Springs Deputy Fire Chief Mike Moser said. “We have not found an entire plane yet, we believe that it may be broken into smaller pieces, we don’t know yet of course, this is very preliminary.”
“Fortunately the plane did not strike any houses when it entered the water,” Moser said.