Light aircraft crashes into Florida shopping centre

“They said, “Something’s burning!” she said.

Ms Arevalo said she quickly ran with another employee to the shopping centre
and saw flames in the air that appeared to be shooting from the back of the
supermarket.

“There was a lot of smoke. When I first saw it, there was fire in the
air and then it was just a lot of black smoke,” she said, adding she
tried to go behind the complex near the back of the supermarket but fire
officials blocked off the area and even some surrounding roads for a time.

Roth Peeler, who lives about 300ft behind the store, told the Orlando Sentinel
he saw the plane go down.

“A small single-engine, yellow plane spiralled right down and through
the roof and just exploded,” Mr Peeler said. “Not a piece of the
plane came out. It’s all in the store.

“I went around the front and saw people running out of the store and
trying to get into their cars and out of the parking lot.”

Deland is about 20 miles west of Daytona Beach and the shopping centre is not
far from the Deland Municipal Airport.

A dark column of smoke could be seen wafting from the rooftop of the shopping
centre in news photographs. About 20 fire trucks at one point crowded about
the complex and firefighters atop a truck’s extension ladder poured streams
of water on the flames.

Deland Fire authorities did not immediately respond to calls for comment.

Source: agencies

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