AKIPRESS.COM - Five people, including four members of one family, were killed when their twin-engine plane crashed during takeoff Sunday morning at a small airport about 40 miles east of Tampa, CNN reported. 

The plane, a Cessna 340, was taking off from Bartow Municipal Airport just after 7 a.m. in a dense fog when it crashed and caught fire, said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.

There were no survivors and "no chance of survival," he said.

"It is a tragedy any day of the week," Judd said. "It is a worse tragedy on Christmas Eve."