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A newly released audio recording offered clues to what happened prior to the deadly plane crash that collided into a mobile home park in Clearwater, Florida, on Thursday evening.
In audio from an air traffic control tower, obtained by FOX 13, the pilot is heard conversing with the tower prior to the deadly crash.
“I can’t see the other airport,” the pilot is heard saying. “I’m losing an engine.”
“Oh, f—,” the pilot said.
During a news conference Thursday evening, Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said that the fire spread to three other homes.
He said three structures “definitely” have fire damage while an additional home may have also been damaged.
There are “several fatalities both from the aircraft and within the mobile home,” Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said. (Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
Firefighters work to put out a fire after a small plane crashed into the Bayside Waters mobile home park in Clearwater, Fla., on Thursday. (Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
Video from the scene shows a massive fireball erupting from the park.
According to the FAA, three people were killed in the crash — two people on the ground and the pilot.
The identities of the victims have not yet been released.
