The site of a plane crash in the Florida Everglades on Jan. 24, 2024.Photo:NBC 6 South Florida/ YouTube
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A small plane crashed this week in the Florida Everglades, killing two men onboard, authorities said.
In an email to PEOPLE Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that, based on preliminary information, authorities found the wreckage of a single-engine Cessna 172 in the Everglades off I-75 near Weston, Florida, around 10:50 a.m. local time on Wednesday. The agency added that two people were on the aircraft.
PEOPLE reached out to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office Friday for additional information, but they did not immediately respond.
The sheriff’s office said, per theMiami Herald, that the plane departed from North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on Tuesday. According to Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Michael Kane, the plane left around 6:30 p.m. that day and headed west, based on information from Flight Aware. Then after it turned north, he said, the aircraft went off the radar at 6:43 p.m.
“They were beyond help at this point in time,” said Kane. “If the aircraft went down as it apparently did at 6:45, you’re talking, you know, 16 hours, 18 hours of those two parties being out there in the Everglades.”
He added that emergency responders arrived at the crash site at 11:18 a.m., per theTampa Bay Times. Kane also said that the men may have been dead for “quite a while,” theMiami Heraldreported.
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The FAA said in its email to PEOPLE that it and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident.
source: people.com
