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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA grandson of retired Florida State University football coach Bobby Bowden was among two young men killed Thursday in a traffic crash in Polk County, the Sheriff's Office said.
Investigators said the driver, Rafael Fernandes De Aguiar Valim, 25, and passenger Taylor Jeffrey Bowden, 23, both of Winter Haven, and Robert Lewis Edwards, 22, of Boca Raton were at a bar in Winter Haven on Christmas night prior to the 2 a.m. crash in Winter Haven.
Edwards, the back-seat passenger, survived the crash into a ditch or creek filled with 5 feet of water.
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Thursday, December 12, 2013Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA Winter Haven pilot landed his plane in a lake after his engine failed.
Eric McCoy, 48, was flying his 1946 North American Navion north from Winter Haven airport around noon when the engine began misfiring a sputtering. Polk deputies say McCoy sent out a "may day" call to the Bartow Municipal Airport tower. With limited options, McCoy retracted his landing gear and made a hard landing in Lake Hancock. The area where he landed was about 4 feet deep.
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Saturday, December 7, 2013Area:
Jacksonville, FLAt least two people were killed when a small plane crashed into a retention pond in a Sandalwood neighborhood not far from Craig Airport, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
The Cesna 310 went down about 6:20 p.m. in a retention pond in the back yard of a home on Nettington Court, in the Sutton Lakes neighborhood off Atlantic Boulevard