The plane hit the ground before it reached the train tracks, but “a lot of the wreckage” ended up there, Gibson said. After crashing, the plane erupted into flames, sending large plumes of ...

Three people were killed and one was injured when a small plane crashed Friday morning in South Florida near a major interstate highway and pushed a car onto railroad tracks, officials said.

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A small plane has crashed in South Florida near a major interstate highway and railroad tracks, police say.

Three people on the plane died after it crashed short of the airport a little after 10 a.m., hitting a car and pushing it into a tree and onto the railroad tracks near Military Trail and Glades Road.