VIDEO: The shocking moment when a small plane crashed in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood on Sunday evening was caught on camera. Video from a resident’s surveillance camera shows the plane crashing into a tree in front of a home on SW 14 Street at SW 68 Boulevard, about a mile east of North Perry Airport, just after 8 p.m.
The four people onboard were rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital. Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue told CBS Miami’s news partner the Miami Herald that a 45-year-old, a 50-year-old and a 14-year-old had minor injuries and a 16-year-old had potentially life threatening injuries. Neighbors, including an off-duty first responder, jumped into action immediately after the crash. They ran to the plane to break the glass and pull the family of four out while using a fire extinguisher and hose to put out a fire.
“He came with an axe, breaking the windows. So, we took the father out first, the two daughters peeked their heads out of the seat, and we had to break the bottom half of the cockpit because the mom was on the bottom, trapped in. The neighbor from across the street had a fire extinguisher trying to put the fire out. My neighbor where the plane actually crashed, he had a water hose and was hosing the plane down,” neighbor Eddy Crispin said.
