Tsotne David Javahishvili went missing when the plane he was flying did not land at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport as planned. The Del Mar resident, who had taken off earlier from the Ramona Airport, was cleared to land by air traffic control but wasn’t heard from again.

Just-released 911 calls captured the desperate moments after a small plane crashed in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood Sunday evening, as neighbors rushed into action. They came armed with sledgehammers, axes and hoses to save a family of four trapped inside the burning aircraft.

Investigators revealed the Cessna single-engine plane went down after the pilot reported a loss of engine power.

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.

The small engine plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza, was reporting engine trouble as it approached the runway, according to the Sylacauga airport.

RadarOnline.com can reveal the final moments of John F. Kennedy Jr. 's life 26 years after his sudden death shocked the nation. JFK Jr. died alongside his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her sister Lauren in a plane crash on July 16, 1999.

In a formal statement issued on July 17, AAIB emphasised that the preliminary report only outlines "what" happened, not why, and urged the media and public to avoid speculative or selective interpretations.

The aircraft, believed to have been flown by Bega man David Stephens, was "completely destroyed", according to police.