Overview
- The Beechcraft King Air B100 departed Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport around 10:14 a.m. and crashed about five minutes later into a retention pond in Coral Springs’ Windsor Bay neighborhood.
- Coral Springs Police confirmed two fatalities, and the response shifted from rescue to recovery after divers initially found debris but no intact fuselage or survivors.
- No one on the ground was injured; officials said the aircraft clipped trees and a backyard fence before entering the water, scattering debris across nearby yards.
- Authorities said the flight was carrying Hurricane Melissa relief supplies to Montego Bay; federal records list the 1976 airframe as registered to International Air Services.
- Residents were advised to stay indoors because of a strong fuel odor and to heed road closures as the FAA and NTSB investigate, with no cause determined so far.