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Everglades Crash

What: Bull Gator Air, Inc. Piper-PA 32 en route from Gainesville to Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport
Where: west of U.S. 27 at the Broward-Palm Beach county line in the Everglades
When: Sunday Sept 20
Who: 4 aboard. One “confirmed” dead though there are presumably no survivors.
Why: After the pilot radioed in for help, the plane crashed in the Everglades while en route. The cause is unresolved and the search is ongoing for passengers’ remains.

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