Originally posted by: iamwiz82
It was a DC-3, that sucker is close to 70 years old!
Plane crashes near Fort Lauderdale
Two victims reportedly taken from sceneBREAKING NEWS
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Updated: 4:37 p.m. ET June 13, 2005A plane crashed near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday afternoon, sending flames and smoke into the air.
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The plane, a twin-engine DC-3, went down shortly after it took off at 3:48 p.m. ET, WTVJ-TV reported. The DC-3 took off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, a source with the Federal Aviation Administration told NBC News. There is no commercial service from that airport. The crash site in a residential neighborhood was about three miles from the airport.
Officials said at least two people were taken to a hospital, officials told WTVJ. There was no word on whether there were any deaths or other injuries. Capt. David Erdman of the Broward County fire-rescue service said it was not clear how many people were aboard.
The plane clipped three or four homes, causing minimal damage, WTVJ reported. TV pictures showed fire trucks dousing the fuselage with foam, bringing the flames under control as the wreckage lay in the street.
The DC-3 was designed in the 1930s and is used by some cargo operators into the Caribbean.
The plane was a workhorse military transport in World War II, known then as the C-47. After the war, the plane was converted to civilian use and renamed the DC-3.
The planes still in service are about 50 years old on average, though many have been fitted with newer turboprop engines and have had other modernizing modifications.
Although the basic design of the aircraft is now almost 70 years old, hundreds of DC-3s and C-47s remain in military, commercial and private use worldwide.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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