Several dead after flight school planes collide in midair

Three people died Tuesday as two small planes from a Florida flight school collided in the air outside Miami and plummeted into the Everglades, according to a report.

Witnesses were stunned as a Piper PA-34 and a Cessna 172 flew into each other at about 1 p.m., nine miles west of Miami Executive Airport, the Miami Herald reported.

“I heard a weird sound. It sounded like a plane, but it sounded too close. It sounded like an 18-wheeler going 100 mph down the street,” South Miami-Dade resident Daniel Miralles, who was fishing nearby, told the paper.

The remains of both planes — which the Herald said were from Dean International flight school — were later found smashed and floating in alligator-infested waters by first responders.

The planes had not filed flight plans as they were operating under “visual flight rules,” the Herald said. There was no word on the cause of the crash.

Between 2007 and 2017, Dean International school has a history of more than two dozen incidents and accidents, the Herald said. The school did not return calls from The Post for comment.