VIDEOS: New police body camera video shows the frantic moments after small plane crashed in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood last month. The footage, obtained exclusively by NBC6 on Wednesday, shows Pembroke Pines officers and fire rescue workers after the Cessna carrying four people crashed near Southwest 14th Street and 68th Boulevard back on July 13. Neighbors can be seen spraying water on the wreckage with hoses as smoke pours out and the people on board are pulled out.
Later in the footage, one of the plane’s occupants is seen being placed on a gurney while rescue workers try to comfort a girl who was on board and is sitting on a nearby yard nearly overcome with emotion. Another person can be seen with a bandage on their head while a man believed to be the pilot is given a neck brace and placed on a gurney. National Transportation Safety Board officials said the crash happened while the plane was on approach to nearby North Perry Airport. Surveillance video showed the plane going down about a mile short of the runway, narrowly missing homes as it crashed on a residential street.
In the bodycam footage officers are heard discussing the close call. โHow lucky did that house get? How lucky is that house? Imagine if that would have fallen on the house? Crazy, right?โ one officer says. โThey got so lucky it didnโt explode.โ The four people on board were taken to a local hospital for treatment but all survived. The NTSB and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the crash.
