Raw police chopper video & 911 calls: Deland, Florida plane crash into Publix Supermarket.

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AP:

A man is heard yelling “Get out! Get out!” in 911 tapes released Tuesday from  the crash of a small experimental plane into a Florida grocery store that left  five people injured.

Emergency dispatch tapes captured the panic as  customers fled the store Monday evening. The plane plunged through the roof of a  Publix supermarket in DeLand, about 40 miles north of Orlando.

“Publix is  on fire!” a woman from inside the supermarket said in a 911 call. “The store is  on fire! OK. We got to go.”
Three customers were hurt, and two people  aboard the plane were hospitalized in Orlando. All of the injuries came from  burns, said Luke Schiada, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety  Board.

The amphibious Sea Wind 3000 plane encountered problems shortly  after taking off from the DeLand Municipal Airport, less than two miles from the  shopping center. Investigators weren’t sure where the plane was  heading.

The plane is made of composite material and was amateur-built in  2002. It seats four people but only two people from Illinois were aboard, said  Schiada, who didn’t identify them.

Fire consumed most of the plane, which  plunged through the roof and landed between two aisles in the middle of the  store. The plane didn’t have a black box but investigators may be able to use  the plane’s GPS system to learn more about what happened, Schiada said.

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