UPDATE: Plane backfired before crash in Florida neighborhood that killed child on the ground Terry Spencer Tags: Child dies at hospital, becoming third victim from small plane crash in Pembroke Pines FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A small plane sputtered and backfired even before it taxied to a takeoff that ended tragically when it slammed into an SUV, killing both men aboard the aircraft and a 4-year-old boy in the vehicle, a preliminary report released Tuesday shows. The National Transportation Safety Board report does not say what caused the March 15 crash, which happened moments after the single-engine Beech B36TC took off on a training flight from North Perry Airport in suburban Fort Lauderdale.