I "went to add throttle but there was no thrust and the plane lost altitude and crashed," a Weston pilot told investigators before crashing

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. “It was nothing short of heroic,” Angelo Castillo, the mayor of Pembroke Pines in Broward County, said Tuesday.

The National Transportation Safety Board said the Cessna T337G was on approach to North Perry Airport when it "crashed for unknown reasons" about a mile short of the runway.