Three Florida Planes Crash Over Weekend
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A pilot in Florida died after his plane crashed into a Florida school.
The sea plane clipped the roof of a Sarasota Elementary School Saturday
and then burst into flames.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the Seawind 3000 was on its way
to Venice from Sarasota.
The pilot reported a problem and tried to turn back .
There were no reports of injuries on the ground.
Investigators haven't determined what caused the crash.
The Seawind 3000 is a fixed-wing, single engine kit plane with a
propeller.


Meanwhile, Panama City Police say a pilot flipped a Cessna plane upside
down as
he attempted an emergency landing in a gulf coast community college
parking lot Sunday.
Police say the pilot was the only person on board and was uninjured.
He was still learning to the fly the Cessna 172.
Police say he tried to land at the school after he noticed a problem with
a fuel gauge.


And still another plane crash this weekend, this time when a student pilot
and his instructor had to make an emergency landing on an access road near
a Collier County Shopping Plaza Sunday.
Officials say the engine of their single-engine Cessna suddenly stopped.
The student pilot escaped uninjured, and the instructor was treated for a
minor hand injury.