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Plane crashes in Lantana - 2 dead - Names Released
Comments 0 | Recommend 0Authorities say two people are dead after a single-engine plane crashed into an unoccupied aircraft on the ground at a south Florida airport.
Fire-Rescue spokesman Don Delucia says the crash happened Wednesday morning at Lantana Airport in Palm Beach County.
He says it appears the plane lost power and was making an emergency landing when it struck the parked plane. The impact caused the landing plane to spin around and come to rest underneath a storage trailer.
No one on the ground was injured. The cause is under investigation. Authorities say 68-year-old Jack Howard Henderson and 78-year-old James Donald Breazeal were killed in the crash.
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The names of the deceased have been released:
Jack Henderson, 68 of Lake Worth, Fla.
James Breazeal, 78 of Windemere, Fla.
Two people are dead in a plane crash at the Lantana airport. This is a single engine plane that hit another plane on the ground after it tried to land when it's engine died in the air. One plane is stuck under a semi-trailer.
As the plane was taking off, heading east, the engine went out. The plane tried to turn around and land but crashed at the Lantana airport, hit another plane, spun around and came to rest underneath a storage trailer. No one on the ground was injured. The cause is under investigation.
Stay with CBS12.com for information as it comes in.
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