Dramatic new 911 calls are revealing the frantic moments after a small plane crashed into a Coral Springs neighborhood, killing a father and daughter who were on their way to Jamaica to assist in Hurricane Melissa relief efforts.
The crash happened just before 10:20 a.m. Monday in the Windsor Bay community near the 5000 block of Northwest 57th Way, just west of State Road 7 and south of the Sawgrass Expressway.
Surveillance video from a nearby home showed the plane narrowly miss a house as it clipped some trees and took out part of a backyard fence as it crashed into a lake, sending water into the air and creating waves.
In one of the 911 calls obtained by NBC6 on Friday, a dispatcher speaks with a woman who apparently lives in the home that was almost struck.
“Holy s—…A plane crashed into my house,” the woman says. “Somebody needs to come, there’s a lot of fuel I smell outside.”
The dispatcher tells the woman to evacuate.
“I gotta go, I gotta get my parents out,” she responds.
In another call, a man who said he works for from Miami radar air traffic control said he was in communication with the plane.
“We were just talking to the aircraft and then we lost communication with them, saw them descending and then they were gone. We assume they either crashed or landed,” he said. “We lost radar.”
Other callers who said they live nearby reported hearing the plane crash into the lake.
“I just see bubbles…they’re gone,” one woman told a dispatcher. “They didn’t make it.”
“It shook the whole house,” another woman said.
Another woman reported making a disturbing find near the crash site.
“When I was coming here…I think I was passing maybe body parts on the street,” she told a dispatcher.
The woman describes the body parts and yells to other people at the scene to stay away from them.
“Guys don’t touch that, leave that where it is,” she says, before the dispatcher asks her to further describe them.
“We were so scared and traumatized,” she said. “There seems to be a body part of some sort and I can’t identify it.”
Officials with the City of Fort Lauderdale said the plane, a Beechcraft King Air, had left Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport and was en route to Montego Bay in Jamaica.
The victims of the crash were identified as Alexander Wurm, 53, and his 22-year-old daughter, Serena.
Wurm was the founder of Ignite the Fire Ministry, and was making repeated trips to Jamaica with supplies to help the island recover from Hurricane Melissa.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the crash.
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