Singer/actress Aaliyah, who made science fiction news when she was cast for the part of Zee in the "Matrix" sequel movies, was killed Aug. 25 in a plane crash en route to Florida from the Bahamas.



Reports from the crash are still sketchy, but the Associated Press reports that the plane was carrying the 22-year-old and eight others from a video shoot they were doing in the Bahamas. Eight people were killed in the crash, one other person was seriously injured, according to reports.



Aaliyah first made it big when she won a Grammy nomination for best female R&B vocalist with her song "Try Again" and later got her first acting role in the 2000 movie "Romeo Must Die." She later won a major role in the two sequels to the successful sequel of Keanu Reeve's 1999 blockbuster hit, "The Matrix" ... "The Matrix Reloaded" scheduled to be released in 2003 and "The Matrix 3" scheduled to debut in 2004.



Aaliyah spoke to fans just a few weeks ago on AOL Live on July 31, where she talked about some of the work she had been doing on the sequels.



"I did a couple weeks of shooting in the end of June on 'The Matrix,' and I go back to Sydney, Australia to finish shooting in January for one month," she said.



The R&B singer told fans that she didn't expect to have scenes with Reeves, at least in the first sequel.



"I'm not sure, because stuff changes, but we don't interact. My boyfriend in the film flies their ship, but I don't do much with Neo (Reeves). My character's motivation is her boyfriend. She's from Zion. Everything she does is based on him. She gets to be in some of the action in Part 3, for her man, so it's really sweet."



According to AP, the plane was leaving the Marsh Harbour airport on its way to Opalocka, Fla., when it went down Saturday evening, said police spokesman Marvin Dames.



The cause of the crash is not known, and Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, said the plane was a Cessna 402 owned by Skystream, a company based in Pembroke Pines, Fla.



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