Plane crash near Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport kills 3

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  A Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue worker checks the parking lot where a twin engine plane crashed after takeoff from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Friday, March 15, 2013. Three passengers were killed. Uncredited / Associated Press

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  Charred cars can be seen after a twin engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Friday, March 15, 2013. All three people aboard were killed. Uncredited / Associated Press

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  Smoke billows from the site where a small passenger plane crashed on Friday, March 15, 2013, near the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport in Broward. Ebbey Davis was working on a race car at a nearby shop when he saw the twin engine plane plunge to the ground. All three people aboard the plane were killed. Ebbey Davis / For the Miami Herald

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  Fire rescue officials investigate a parking lot where a twin engine plane crashed shortly after it took off from the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Friday, March 15, 2013. All three people aboard the plane were killed. Jim Rassol / MCT

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  Fire trucks are seen in the parking lot where a twin engine plane crashed shortly after it took off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Friday, March 15, 2013. The plane apparently began having trouble and it reportedly tried to turn back to the airport but didn’t make it, hitting a tree and a fence as it crashed into the lot. Jim Rassol / MCT

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  Cars in a parking lot near Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport are scorched after a twin engine plane crashed there shortly after it took off from the airport. The plane reportedly tried to turn back to the airport but didn’t make it, hitting a tree and a fence as it crashed. Jim Rassol / MCT

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  Three people aboard a twin engine plane were killed after the plane crashed into a car recovery lot just east of the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Friday, March 15, 2013. Burn marks from the crash can be seen on the right wall. Joe Rimkus Jr. / Miami Herald Staff