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A pilot and co-pilot were identified as the two killed in a fiery plane crash on a Florida highway, law enforcement officials said Saturday afternoon. The
Pilot wanted to land at Naples Airport on Florida's west coast. Two minutes before the planned landing, the pilot reported to air traffic controllers that both engines had failed. Pilot then explained that he would not make it to the runway - "and attempted to land on I-75" According to initial reports, three people on board the plane survived the emergency landing. Two others died when the plane hit the Interstate 75 highway on Friday afternoon. The plane was only a few centimeters above their heads, a witness said.
Two people have died after a small plane attempted to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida on Friday afternoon, colliding with a vehicle and bringing traffic to a halt as a massive plume of black smoke rose into the air.