Adrian and indian rock and so what police are telling me this semiblew through the stop sign and came straight on through here, through the dead end and ended up over here in the water narrowly missing the two houses. I want to bring on the district chief from largo. District chief chester. Real quick. This was a mess. You got a couple of different situations right now because yoe going in the water and getting the power lines out from above us. That is right. We will have two large trucks and they are trying to figure out ohio how they will get it out of the canal. How much fuel going in the water do you think . We got 20 gallons of motor oil. And the driver of the truck, he is okay . Yes. He is at largo med center. Be a long night and the tow truck drivers. I talked to largo police and they are telling me that the driver did exhibit some signs of being intoxicated so they do have a dui crew down there at the hospital to figure out how he blew through the stop sign and into the water.
In one case a plane flew into a home. We continue with adam walser. What did you find out. Reporter serena, we have been looking at the records over the past several years. We have seen other incidents at the airport. Since the mid 1970s, 18 other catches have been investigated by the f. A. A. At the airport and several other near misses. The Peter Oknight airport has a runway about half the size of the normal runway in the u. S. And sits directly on the bay. Visibility problems were to blame in 1975 when buddy colt crashed a single engine plane while returning from a show. He and two other colleagues survived. A third wrestler died. He was having what he described either as a sputtering or some type of engine problem. Reporter between 1999 and 2006, 7 other people died in crashes in single or twin engine planes. Emergency landed and struck the home of tommy and cynthia tate that was destroyed. The pilot was killed and the copilot was seriously injured. Cynthia tate was the only one at
Two are dead. And what happened is still a a plane crashes at a tampa flames. 2 are dead and what happened is still a mystery dont. Im dion lim. Im courtney robinson. I want you to take a look at today. Firefighters putting out the last hot spots at that wreck. Police and other nothingers fire trucks, Emergency Rescue vehicles, they left the scene. If youre not familiar with the area, Peter Oknight is a small airport on davis island a few minutes from downtown tampa. Izzie, give us an update. Whats happening . Reporter the airport is closed right now. You can see one Tampa Police Officer securing the site. You can sigh whats left of the plane. There are other orange cones that marked the pieces of the plane. Heres what we know so far. The twin engine cessn a 310 crashed around 11 30 today. The plane was heading to pensacola when it crashed earlier today. Tampa fire said they were investigating the possibility of a second plane today. A couple living across the street heard a loud bang
No word on whether the kellies will continue with the case. A judge just revoked the bail for a new england principal convicted of sexually assaulting a student. He missed his courtordered curfew a few times, meaning hell begin his sentence immediately. Cereal maker General Mills will start labeling gmos nationwide bpt labeling will start in the next week. 2 people are dead after a plane crashed in tampa. Smoke could be seen billowing from Peter Oknight, the small airport in downtown tampa. Isob lerks is there live. Iz zirks e, when will the airport reopen . It will take time to clear it will be up to the faa to decide when to reopen this air important in the meantime, you can see a Tampa Police Officer is securing the site. The faa and ntsb career k can cleared the site late this afternoon. You can see the wreckage there. There are 2 orange markers marking where the remains of the plane e are and other other orange cones that show the pieces of the plane. They are showing the plane en
spring approaches, we will show you some luxury boats that will make you want to hit the water a little bit sooner than normal normal. ouch. from tampa bays number one news station, this is good day tampa bay. good morning to you and welcome to fox 13 fox 13. it is 9 a. M. On this saturday anjuli anjuli davis. alcides i am Alcides Segui Lindsay Milbourne with the forecast. you have been a busy b ee. lindsay the rain is getting closer. the storms, the strong ones late morning. i have drawn a line because notice that narrow band of red and all that lightning, those are the strong storms. west. so to start, we have scattered showers that will be a little widespread for at least a good hour or so, but no thunder and lightning in here. along and west of u. S. 19. we mainly have light rain. pockets offshore a little heavier, but the lightning offshore shows that there is a impulsive energy, and so with it, a marginal risk of Severe Weather late morning into mid weather late morning into midd