19 h. ago Dad’s tragic final posts before he and his daughter were killed in hurricane relief plane crash

The plane made four other trips to or from Jamaica in the past week

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37 h. ago Two dead after small plane on hurricane relief trip to Jamaica crashes in Florida

Aircraft headed to island on a Hurricane Melissa aid mission crashed into a pond in a neighborhood in Coral SpringsA small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential neighborhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, killing two people shortly after takeoff and narrowly missing homes, authorities and a local resident said.The Coral Springs police department confirmed the deaths in a statement Monday afternoon. But police did not provide further details about the occupants of the plane and did not immediately return messages seeking more details. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Florida plane crash horror as jet sending hurricane aid to Jamaica smashes into lake

Emergency services rushed to the scene but quickly declared it a recovery effort with no survivors expected to be found

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69 h. ago Inside the ‘mammoth’ task to rebuild Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa: ‘We feel hopelessness’

Hurricane Melissa became the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica when it made landfall last month, destroying entire communities and ravaging the country’s economy. Aid organisations tell Alex Croft and Bryony Gooch that the rebuild will be long and painful

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1 week ago Race against time for Hurricane Melissa aid workers to deliver relief to people in Jamaica

Aid workers have spread across Jamaica to deliver food and water

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1 week ago Shocking images show devastation Hurricane Melissa has reaped on Jamaica and Cuba

Up to 8,000 British citizens on Caribbean island as ‘storm of the century’ causes catastrophic winds and flash flooding

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1 week ago Cuba in chaos as Hurricane Melissa strikes island while Trump mobilizes aid for devastating Jamaica aftermath: Live updates

Hurricane Melissa is wrecking havoc on Cuba Wednesday morning and is set to unleash its powerful 105mph winds on the Bahamas as it moves through the Caribbean.

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