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.

Over the weekend, a Florida neighborhood nearly suffered a catastrophe when a small aircraft plummeted from the sky, narrowly missing residential buildings.

A small plane carrying four people collided with a tree about a mile away from the airport. Videos shows as neighbors rushed to the scene to help.

The NTSB told Fox News Digital that the Cessna T337G "crashed for unknown reasons" about a mile away from North Perry Airport on Sunday, July 13.

A small plane crash was caught on a CCTV camera in Pembroke Pines, Florida, as a Cessna T337G struck a tree and crash-landed in a residential neighbourhood, just a mile short of North Perry Airport, authorities said.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Flesh-eating bacteria has killed four people in Florida, including one person in Broward County, according to the Florida Department of Health. Several years ago, relatives of William Pledger says he was in the bay off Pensacola Beach watching an air show.