{"id":18308,"date":"2021-12-17T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T20:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=18308"},"modified":"2021-12-17T19:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T00:12:59","slug":"1-dead-following-plane-crash-into-lake-arietta-in-auburndale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/12\/17\/1-dead-following-plane-crash-into-lake-arietta-in-auburndale\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Dead Following Plane Crash into Lake Arietta in Auburndale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials say the plane is an amphibious type private airplane and it is locally registered. However, it is unclear where the flight originated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly thereafter, several members of the fire department boarded the fire department\u2019s rescue watercraft and also attempted to locate survivors. They did recover the body of a deceased adult white female from the lake. Around 4 p.m., divers with the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office recovered the body of an adult white male from the wreckage of the plane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officers and firefighters arrived to find a small fire still burning on the surface of the lake about 600 feet north of the south shoreline of Lake Arietta near the 2100 block of Kirkland Lake Drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witnesses described the plane as moving toward the south then making a turn toward the west, seeing the right-wing dip, and then the plane entering the lake at a steep angle, catching fire when it hit the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original post: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Auburndale Police Department confirmed at least one person has died from a plane crash at Lake Arietta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least one person died from the plane crash into a Polk County lake Friday afternoon, according to Auburndale Police Chief Andy Ray. The plane went 15 feet deep into the water during the crash in Lake Arietta. Auburndale Fire Dept, Police Dept, Polk County Sheriff Office, and Polk County Fire Rescue are on the scene performing search and rescue operations. Polk County Sheriff’s Office rescue divers have begun searching in the area of the crash for other fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small plane crashed at Lake Arietta in Auburndale Friday afternoon, according to Auburndale Fire Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other information has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Officials say the plane is an amphibious type private airplane and it is locally registered. However, it is unclear where the flight originated.  Shortly thereafter, several members of the fire… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}