A small plane carrying humanitarian aid to Jamaica crashed in Florida on Monday morning local time. recently hit by Hurricane Melissa. It was reported by the AP agency, writes TASR.
The plane crashed about five minutes after takeoff in Broward County, home to a large community of people from the Caribbean islands who have been collecting humanitarian aid after Hurricane Melissa. One of the strongest recorded hurricanes in the Caribbean region affected Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas in addition to Jamaica. It claimed at least 28 lives in Jamaica.
Rescuers sent to the plane crash site, which caught the top of a palm tree and ended up in a retention tank in a residential area in the city of Coral Springs, they did not immediately find any persons on board the plane. The search for them in the lake continues. The crash comes days after a large UPS plane crashed in Kentucky. In the US, there is now discussion about the problems in air transport associated with the continued shutdown of the federal government.
