Pilot error is to blame for three separate plane crashes in Florida over the past two years, that is according to a new report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
In all nine people were killed.
In April 2007, five people died when their twin-engine plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, 25-miles east of Fort Lauderdale. The NTSB says the pilot should not have flown through thunderstorms while en route to the Bahamas.
In December 2006, a Davie family died when their twin engine plane crashed into a construction site near an Atlanta airport. Federal officials say the pilot was flying too low while approaching the airport in heavy fog and did not follow proper procedures.
And then in June 2006, a pilot died and his co-pilot was injured when their plane skidded off a Tampa-area runway, crashing into a home and then exploding. The NTSB now says a mechanical malfunction and poor decisions by the pilot when he tried to make an emergency landing caused the crash.