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A plane that crashed minutes after takeoff into a lake in Coral Springs , killing two people last month, was laden with unweighed and unsecured equipment and supplies for Hurricane Melissa relief in Jamaica, investigators said Wednesday.

A local church group helped pilot Alexander Wurm, 53, founder of an evangelical Christian ministry that conducts missions across the Caribbean, load the 1976 Beech B100 aircraft with a generator, boxes of tarps, electric tools, screws and flashlights at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. The pilot told the helpers he could carry up to 1,000 pounds of cargo, a newly released preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report.

The exact amount of cargo loaded onto the plane was not weighed, according to

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