A small plane that crashed into a Pembroke Pines neighborhood over the summer ran out of fuel and may have been overloaded by more than 500 pounds, a new National Transportation Safety Board report said.
The NTSB final report lists "fuel exhaustion" as the defining event and probable cause of the July 13 crash of the Cessna that was carrying four people when it went down in a neighborhood while on approach to nearby North Perry Airport.
Surveillance video showed the plane going down about a mile short of the runway, narrowly missing homes as it crashed on a residential street.
The four people on board were taken to a local hospital for treatment but all survived.
According to the report, the pilot's "inadequate preflight fuel planning" led to the fuel exhaustion, causing the plane's

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