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Plane Hits Deer On Runway

POSTED: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
UPDATED: 11:03 am EST March 30, 2005

Pieces of the damaged propeller pierced the plane's fuselage.
A small plane crashed into a deer on the runway of a far-flung Miami-Dade County airport this morning.

The twin-prop plane sustained serious damage. The left prop appeared to be destroyed and pieces of flying propeller penetrated the fuselage. A pilot and copilot on board the plane were not hurt.

The deer died. Nothing more than a red smear on the runway was left.

The Dade Collier Jet Port, which is just a stretch of tarmac in the Florida Everglades, serves as a touch-and-go landing pad for training pilots. It is about 36 miles west of Krome Avenue just north of Tamiami Trail.

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