Here is an article I found off another website. From the video I've seen its apparent the pilot was attempting to avoid traffic on the road.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- One man is dead and another is in fair condition after a private plane crashed at an Orlando golf course Tuesday afternoon.
The single-engine plane came down at Dubsdread Golf Course in College Park, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.
Images from Chopper 2 showed the plane down along the side of Par Avenue. The plane crashed into a concrete pole next to the 17th hole, which is also next to the Tap Room, the golf course's restaurant.
The Cessna 172 had two pilots on board. Dan Lawlor, 33, was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center with critical injuries. He died during surgery Tuesday night, according to a spokesman for the Orlando Police Department.
Lawlor was a flight instructor for Showalter Flying Service.
Steve Schieber, 26, is in fair condition at ORMC. Schieber, who is also an employee at Showalter, is a commercial pilot with a lot of flying experience, police said. The two men had rented the Cessna for the afternoon.
On Tuesday afternoon, the pilot reported that his plane was losing oil pressure and told air traffic controllers that he was not going to make it to Orlando Executive Airport, its destination.
The pilot first said he was going to try to land at a field at Edgewater High School, but then he decided to try for Dubsdread. The plane crash landed at about 4:45 p.m. into live power lines.
Witnesses said the pilot used all of his flying abilities to avoid hitting the homes that sit just feet from the golf course.
"I think he did an excellent job trying to save other lives. How he didn't hit the cars is amazing," one witness said.
The plane is registered to Grady and Francis, an Orlando-based company.
Tom Stewart, the general manager of the golf course, told NewsChannel 2 that he and some bystanders ran out to the crash scene right after the accident and tried to pull the two men out of the plane. He said they were able to get one man pulled to the green, but emergency personnel had to pull the other man to safety.
Stewart said they did see some fuel leaking, but there was never a fire.
About 900 OUC customers were impacted immediately after the crash, but power has been restored to all but a few who live close to the crash site, according to a spokesman for the utility company. He expects power to be restored to all customers by 11 p.m.
A group of women were having a meeting at the Tap Room when the plane went down. They witnessed the entire crash from the restaurant's balcony. They said the plane was eerily quiet as it glided toward the 17th fairway. The hole has a very wide fairway if he could have made it over the wires.
One of the women said two people from the restaurant came running out with fire extinguishers because people were screaming that there was a gas leak.
"Somebody else climbed into the aircraft and pulled the guy out. Somebody took it upon themself to move this guy to save his life," one witness said.
She said everyone was aware of the downed power lines and some people were screaming, "Back away."
"He was able to give us his name and telephone number to call his family and his girlfriend. I made some calls, and she said, 'Please tell him that I love him.' So I ran to catch him to make sure that he did know that she loved him," another witness said.
