A small turboprop plane bound for Jamaica carrying hurricane relief supplies crashed into a pond in a residential neighbourhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, Florida, on Monday morning minutes after takeoff, authorities said.

A fire official told The Associated Press no victims were located during rescue efforts and they said the search had become a recovery operation. It wasn't immediately known how many people were aboard the aircraft.

Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department Deputy Chief Mike Moser said crews responded within minutes of a call reporting the crash. He said no homes were damaged, but crews spotted some debris near the retention pond.

Local aerial TV footage also showed a broken fence in the backyard of one home bordering the pond near where the plane we

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