This day in history: 21 years ago, the Goodyear blimp crashed in Coral Springs

Twenty-one years ago, Scott Buratt looked outside during a powerful storm in Coral Springs and heard a rumbling other than thunder — the sound of a blimp propeller.

“Then we saw that it was going down,” he recalled.

In a seemingly unthinkable sight, the famous 192-foot Goodyear blimp that was a staple at South Florida sporting events plunged from the sky during a storm on June 16, 2005…

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