Europeans on the scene shocked by Fort Lauderdale airplane accident

Airplane crash Fort Lauderdale

A twin engined Piper PA31 aircraft went down around 4:30 p.m., soon after departing Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, said Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Fort Lauderdale fire Division Chief John San Angelo said that all three people on the plane died in the crash. 

"There was a lot of damage, a lot of fire -- I don't think anybody could make it through that," San Angelo said.

Two European citizens who witnessed the accident from the BJ's wholesale store on Powerline road about 200 meters from the impact of the plane, sent us a picture from their mobile phone. "I was shocked and will never forget this horrible scene of seeing the plane diving nose down into the ground and exploding into a fireball", one of them said.  

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