Video | US Plane Crashes Into Mobile Home Park in Florida; Several People Killed

A small plane crashed at a Florida mobile home park on Thursday, killing several people aboard the plane and in one home. The aircraft, a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V35, crashed into the residential area after the pilot reported an engine failure, CNN reported.

The plane crashed near a Bayside Waters community, located off US Highway 19 south of Gulf to Bay Boulevard. One video, making rounds on the internet, showed flames and smoke in the community. “I can confirm that we have several fatalities both from the aircraft and within the mobile home,” city Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said Thursday during a news briefing, without providing a precise number of how many people died.

Fire Chief Scott Ehlers didn’t give the exact number of people killed, saying only that several people aboard the plane and in a home died.

Ehlers said the pilot reported an emergency to St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport shortly before the plane went off radar about 5 kilometers north of a runway. The airport is about 11 kilometers southeast of Clearwater. US federal investigators would examine the scene, authorities said.

This incident comes a week after two people were killed after a single-engine plane crashed into the ‘alligator alley’ of Florida Everglades.