3 killed when small plane crashed and burned in Florida mobile home park

By CURT ANDERSON
Associated Press

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot and two people on the ground died when a small plane crashed into a Florida mobile home park. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot reported engine failure shortly before disappearing from radar near the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. The pilot was the only person aboard the plane. It ripped apart one mobile home and destroyed a double-wide trailer in Clearwater’s Bayside Waters mobile home community. Joe Miller lived next door to the double-wide trailer destroyed by the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V35. He says he was thrown to the floor as his home was ripped apart and his neighbors’ went up in flames.