LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- Three people were killed in a plane crash Tuesday morning in Lafayette Parish when a small aircraft went down less than a mile from its intended landing site.

The victims have been identified as 58-year-old Bruce Verduyn and 42-year-old Justin Ramsey, both from The Woodlands, Texas, and 46-year-old Lydia Laws from Spring, Texas. The crash occurred just after 11 a.m., with the plane narrowly missing several homes, a church, a dollar store, and a gas station before crashing into an open field.

"It's just scary. It just, it happened so fast. It happened fast," said Avery Vallot, a witness who saw the aftermath of the crash.

Surveillance video captured the moment the small plane appeared to fall out of the sky. Vallot, who was sitting outside his home nearby, descri

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