Newly released audio captures the desperate final moments of a pilot who was killed when his plane crashed into a Florida home on Thursday.
The freak pilot could be heard reporting what appeared to be spontaneous engine failure before gliding toward the Bayside Waters mobile home park in Clearwater Thursday.
“I can’t see the other airport,” the pilot said in chilling audio obtained by Fox 13.
“I lost the engine.”
“Oh, s–t.”
That’s when a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V35 crashed into a house, obliterating property.
The pilot and two people on the ground were killed and several others were injured. None of their identities have yet been revealed.
Firefighters respond to a fire after a small plane crashed on Thursday evening, Feb. 1. 2024. Newly released AP Audio captures the last moments of a desperate pilot just seconds before crashing home. AP
The audio transmission also included a report from another pilot who witnessed the crash, telling the air traffic control tower that it “came down hard. They were on fire.”
“He must have gone into a house, the whole house was demolished,” said the pilot. “I just saw him go down at a really high rate of speed.”
According to fire officials, responders on the ground were preparing for an emergency landing at St. Pete–Clearwater after the pilot reported engine failure.
The pilot and two people on the ground were killed and several others were injured. Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department/X The victims involved in the tragic crash have not yet been identified by the authorities. ZUMAPRESS.com
The plane was only 3 miles north of the runway when it went down.
The plane had landed inside a mobile home, reducing the structure to ashes. The fire then spread to three other mobile homes, Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said.
Video shows what appears to be an apocalyptic scene, with wreckage still smoldering next to charred buildings and trees.
The crash is under investigation.
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