Three people survived the crash of a Beechcraft Duchess in the back yard of a home in Pompano Beach, Florida, Monday. The Duchess clipped the roof of the house before crashing in the yard and erupting in flame. The pilot and two international students from Peru and Ecuador in the aircraft were badly burned. The aircraft is registered to Florida Aviation Academy at the nearby Pompano Beach Airpark.
No one on the ground was hurt but debris from the crash was strewn across four neighboring yards. The injured have been identified as pilot Geoffrey White, 40, and students Sylvia Mena, 23, of Ecuador and Fernando Diaz, 25, of Peru. They were described as having second-degree burns to 30-40 percent of their bodies. Federal investigators are on the scene.
