One person was killed when a small plane crashed into a Florida resident’s yard and erupted into flames and plumes of smoke Sunday morning, according to authorities. The Cessna 401B airplane departed from Tampa North Aero Park with one pilot aboard before crashing into a residential yard in Wesley Chapel,

The Cessna had departed from Tampa North Aero Park earlier that morning before going down under what the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration described as "unknown circumstances.

What started as a routine training mission quickly became a real recuse operation when the 920th Rescue Wing learned of a possible downed aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean.

The pilot of a small plane is dead after it crashed Sunday morning, April 19, into the backyard of a neighborhood home near Tampa, Florida.

A small plane crashed into a backyard in Florida, causing an explosion and killing the pilot.