A single-engine plane crashed into a waterfront mobile home park in Clearwater, Fla., on Thursday evening after the pilot reported an engine failure, killing several people, damaging four homes and setting the area on fire, officials said.
Several fatalities were reported on Thursday after a small plane crashed into and demolished a mobile home in Clearwater, Florida, officials said.
Images posted online by the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department showed flames and smoke billowing from the destroyed home.
“I can confirm that we have several fatalities both from the aircraft and within,” the mobile home the plane crashed into, Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said in a press briefing late on Thursday. He did not give the exact number of fatalities.
The pilot had radioed in a Mayday distress call, Ehlers said earlier.
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The aircraft, a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V35, crashed into the residential area after the pilot reported an engine failure, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson.
It was not clear how many people were on the plane.
In all, four homes were damaged in the mobile home park where the crash occurred, he said.
