Crashed Plane Killed Walking Dad And Daughter

According to Skynews, a father has been killed and his daughter left seriously injured after a small plane crash-landed on a beach in Florida.

The man was walking along the sand in Venice when the aircraft, a 1972 Piper Cherokee, came down.

The pair have been named as 36-year-old Ommy Irizarry and nine-year-old Oceana.

On his Facebook page just hours before the tragedy on Sunday, Mr Irizarry wrote that he was celebrating his ninth wedding anniversary with his wife, Rebecca.

Witness Zack Arceneaux told reporters at the scene: "The dad looked very bad. They were performing CPR on him he had blood on his face.

"It looked like he wasn't breathing at all."

Oceana has been taken to a children's hospital in St Petersburg "and is believed to be in critical condition," said Wendy Rose, of the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.

She added that neither the pilot nor his passenger, named as 57-year-old Karl Kokomoor and 60-year-old David Theen, were hurt in the incident.

Venice Airport officials had told the sheriff's office that the pilot was going to attempt a beach landing after signalling he was in distress and was unable to make it to the airfield.

Ms Rose was quoted by CBS as saying: "He knew he couldn't make it back to the airport and was going to try to land on the beach. And he did land at the edge of the water on the beach."

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.

Spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen told the Associated Press the plane reportedly lost power but had no details.