Plane makes 'miracle' crash-landing on Florida beach packed with tourists
A light aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing on a packed beach in Florida on Saturday evening.
Pilot Jamie Barker and passenger Gina Mason landed the single-engine Cessna 172 on Singer Island Beach.
See also: Light plane crashes twice on beach in New Zealand
Mr Barker reportedly told police the plane's engine stalled as he was travelling from Jupiter to Lantana.
Speaking to WPTV, witness Gina Hartel said: "We saw this very low plane really close and we knew immediately something was wrong."
DaWayne Watson, public information officer for the Riviera Beach Fire Rescue, said that it was a miracle nobody was hurt.
Speaking to The Sun Sentinel, he said: "It was a very skillful landing — to be over water and then end up on the beach."
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident.
It comes just weeks after a plane crash-landed on a popular and packed beach in Italy.
Tourists ran for their lives as they saw the light aircraft plummeting towards the shoreline at Santa Severa beach, near Rome.
The single-engine plane landed at the water's edge where families and children had been playing, and onlookers were shocked also shocked on this occasion that there were no fatalities.
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