Plane Crash in Costa Rica Leaves 10 Americans Dead, Including NY Family of Five

The tail of the burned fuselage of a small plane that crashed is seen in Guanacaste, Corozalito, Costa Rica on December 31, 2017. Ten Americans flying from a vacation hotspot on Costa Rica's tropical Pacific coast died when the small plane they had just boarded crashed and burst into flames shortly after take-off, officials in the country said. Ezequiel Becerra/AFP/Getty Images

The plane that crashed in Costa Rica, killing at least 10 Americans, had barely left the ground, an eyewitness said.

“The plane was super low and then all of a sudden [it] veered to the left and crashed into the ground of the mountain sideways, wing first,” Dawn Wolf told NBC.