A small aircraft carrying hurricane aid provides to Jamaica crashed right into a pond in a residential space of Coral Springs, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, on Monday, minutes after taking off.Authorities mentioned no victims have been discovered throughout preliminary rescue efforts, which have now shifted to a restoration operation led by native police. It was not instantly recognized how many individuals have been on board the plane.Coral Springs-Parkland hearth division deputy chief Mike Moser mentioned crews responded inside minutes of a name reporting the crash. “There was no precise aircraft to be seen,” he mentioned. “They adopted the particles path to the water. We had divers that entered the water and tried to seek for any victims and didn't discover any.”Moser added that no houses have been broken within the crash and that federal aviation officers would examine the trigger.The aircraft had taken off from Fort Lauderdale Govt Airport at round 10:14 am, in response to a spokesperson for the Metropolis of Fort Lauderdale, which owns and operates the airport. Coral Springs cops and hearth crews arrived on the scene at 10:19 am, simply 5 minutes after takeoff.Broward County, the place the aircraft took off and later crashed, is house to a big Caribbean American group that had been actively gathering aid provides after Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a Class 5 storm final month, inflicting main harm.The aircraft was on a humanitarian mission to ship help to communities affected by the hurricane.
