Four people were tragically killed Tuesday afternoon in a mid-air plane crash over a lake near Winter Haven, Florida. The Polk County Sheriff's Office has identified the four victims in the collision as a 19-year-old flight student from Winter Haven, a flight instructor from Fort Lauderdale, a passenger from Carlisle, Pennsylvania and the pilot of the second plane, whose identity has not been released.
The crash happened over Lake Hartridge in Winter Haven, Florida, when two small planes collided in mid-air. The Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a press release that the 19-year-old student pilot was in a single-engine plane with a flight instructor when it collided with a larger, single-engine plane that was occupied by the pilot and a passenger.
The Polk County Sheriff's Office said that it is continuing to investigate the cause of the mid-air collision. They are working with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board to determine why the two planes collided. The sheriff's office said that both planes were destroyed in the collision, and that the four victims were pronounced dead at the scene.