Plane Crash In The Everglades Sends Two To The Hospital

WLRN Public Media | By Howard Cohen

Published May 4, 2018 at 1:27 PM EDT

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Two people were rushed to the hospital after a small plane went down in the Everglades Thursday night.

Two people are hospitalized after the small plane they were riding crashed into the pitch-black Everglades late Thursday night.

The plane went down west of Okeechobee Road and Krome Avenue around 11:30 p.m.

Fire rescue crews from Miami-Dade and Broward had to be lowered to the wreckage by helicopter to the scene as the crash, which split the plane in two, happened miles from the roadway.

A medic from a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue chopper saw one individual trapped under twisted metal from the plane and another trapped under the wreck in knee-deep water, CBS4 reported. A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue airboat arrived and its crew helped free the two.

Read more from our news partner, The Miami Herald.