FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A newly released 911 call captured the moments after a plane crashed into a condo building near Fort Lauderdale Beach.
The small banner plane crashed into the building just before 12 p.m. on Friday, in the area of Oakland Park Boulevard and A1A.
The pilot who died from the crash was identified as 28-year-old Derek Morgan.
“A plane just hit the side of the [expletive] building right here where I’m working,” said a witness in one of the 911 calls. “I’ve just seen the plane. I heard him. He sounded like he was in distress, and I looked up and said, ‘Holy shit, he’s low,’ and I looked up, and I see him crash into the side of the damn building.”
One witness of the crash reached out for help in the 911 call released on Wednesday.
“I saw the plane just crash right above me on the 15th floor,” said the witness.
“We got a plane crash in Fort Lauderdale. OK, stay on the line with me, OK?,” said the 911 operator.
“Oh my God,” said the witness.
“Just stay on the line with me, OK?,” said the operator.
The aircraft crashed through the condo building before plunging into a pool.
“I’m in my living room. I saw the yellow plane. It was flying. It was coming so fast, and I thought it was going to hit my building. I heard a big crash,” said another witness. “It’s one of those planes that carries banners, and it looks like it landed in the pool.”
No one else was injured during the incident, but emotional scars were forever forged.
“It bashed a hole in my apartment, a hole in the brick wall,” said one witness.
“Any fire?” asked the 911 operator.
“No fire that I can see, but my kitchen is a mess. It punched a hole right in my kitchen,” the witness said.
The wreckage from the crash was removed within one day.
The cause of the plane crash is still under investigation.
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