{"id":424250,"date":"2024-02-10T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=424250"},"modified":"2024-02-10T08:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T05:56:37","slug":"two-people-die-after-plane-attempts-emergency-landing-in-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/two-people-die-after-plane-attempts-emergency-landing-in-southwest-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people die after plane attempts emergency landing in southwest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAPLES, (SONNA) \u2014 Two people have died after a small plane attempted to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida on Friday afternoon, colliding with a vehicle and bringing traffic to a halt as a massive plume of black smoke rose into the air.<\/p>\n

The crash landing happened near the Pine Ridge Road exit in Collier County, just north of where the interstate heads east toward Fort Lauderdale along what is known as Alligator Alley.<\/p>\n

Brianna Walker saw the wing of the plane drag the car in front of hers and slam into the wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s seconds that separated us from the car in front of us,\u201d she said. \u201cThe wing pulverized this one car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker and her friend spotted the plane moments before it hit the highway, allowing her friend to pull over before the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plane was over our heads by inches,\u201d she said. \u201cIt took a hard right and skid across the highway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker said an explosion of flames then burst from the plane with a loud boom. Pieces of the plane littered the highway.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels unreal, like a movie,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was seconds between us dying.\u201d<\/div>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration identified the aircraft as a Bombardier Challenger 600 jet and said five people were aboard when the crash happened around 3:15 pm.<\/p>\n

The plane had taken off from an airport at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, at about 1 p.m. and was scheduled to land in Naples around the time of the crash, Naples Airport Authority spokesperson Robin King said. A pilot had contacted the tower requesting an emergency landing, saying they had lost both engines.<\/p>\n

The pilot was cleared to land on a runway but replied \u201cwe\u2019<\/span>re not going to make the runway. We\u2019<\/span>ve lost both engines,\u201d<\/span> according to a tape of the call cited by the the Naples Daily News.<\/p>\n

The tower lost contact, and then airport workers saw the smoke from the interstate just a few miles away, King said.<\/p>\n

King said they sent fire trucks with special foam to the scene, and three of the five people on board were taken from the wreckage alive.<\/p>\n

Collier County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson Adam Fisher confirmed two deaths, but said he didn\u2019t immediately know whether the victims had been passengers on the plane or were on the ground.<\/div>\n

According to the FlightAware aircraft tracker, the plane was operated by Hop–<\/span>a–<\/span>Jet Worldwide Charter based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The aircraft had been scheduled to fly back to Fort Lauderdale Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Hop–<\/span>a–<\/span>Jet said Friday night that it had \u201creceived confirmed reports of an accident involving one of our leased aircraft near Naples\u201d and would send a team to the crash site, the Naples Daily News reported.<\/p>\n

Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAPLES, (SONNA) \u2014 Two people have died after a small plane attempted to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida on Friday afternoon, colliding with a vehicle and bringing traffic to a halt as a massive plume of black smoke rose into the air. The crash landing happened near the Pine Ridge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":424251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-424250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424252,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424250\/revisions\/424252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}