A pilot was killed when a small plane went down in Pasco County, Florida, on Sunday, landing in a neighbor’s backyard.<\/p>\n
A neighbor’s doorbell camera captured the moments after the Cessna C402 crashed in the residential area in Wesley Chapel, about 24 miles north of Tampa, at around 8:35 a.m.<\/p>\n
The FAA said only the pilot, who has not been identified, was on board the plane that departed from Tampa North Aero Park. <\/p>\n
In the footage, Christina Galbiati can be heard saying “Oh my God” as a thick plume of smoke rises in the distance. <\/p>\n
“It was loud, it sounded mechanical, it sounded rumbling… like a gurgle,” Galbiati said in an interview with NBC News. “Everything seemed fine, but then I saw it curve and then just go straight down.”<\/p>\n
Her family ran over to help, but there wasn’t much they could do. <\/p>\n
The wreckage was “ash, just ash and rubble,” she said. <\/p>\n
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said one person was fatally injured. <\/p>\n
Galbiati says she witnessed what she feels was a “heroic moment,” in which a last-minute decision by the pilot may have averted greater loss.<\/p>\n
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating what caused the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pilot was killed when a small plane went down in Pasco County, Florida, on Sunday, landing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1338],"class_list":["post-238855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-pasco-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}