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Collinsville,
Oklahoma
April
7, 2013
Downtown
Plane Crash
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Small
Plane Crashed In Collinsville
Sunday Just Before 6pm
Fatal To Pilot And At Least One Passenger
In Backyard Of Unoccupied Home Surrounded By Businesses
And Other Homes
Previous
Coverage
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B-52
Crash near Skiatook in mid-1950's
shook Collinsville
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Home
(email questions/comments to wrightted@aol.com).
Ted Wright -- last update 4/8/2013 (PlaneCrashDowntownApr7.html)
www.cvilleok.com
Copyright 2013 -- Collinsville, Oklahoma
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This
portion of the plane wreckage (and a lot of dirt) ended up on the Broadway roadway
Sunday.
This
is a view of the backyard where the plane crashed (where the firemen are standing)
with the rear of house sustaining damage either from the fire and possibly flying
debris. The front of the house (which was vacant) faces north onto Broadway
about mid-way between 13th and 14th Streets.
This
charred grass is in front of the house just east of the yard where the plane
went down. This view is looking west on Broadway.
About
an hour after the crash there was a search of the creek area east of the park
(between 14th and 15th off South Street about 3 block south of the crash scene.
I'm not sure anything was found and suspect it was followup to unconfirmed reports
of objects or a person falling from the plane before the crash. -- Ted
This
is a view looking west down the alley between Dolton's Funeral Home and Garner's
Flowers within the crash block. Other businesses in that block that were just
a stone's throw from the crash were Collinsville Family Dentistry, Marilyn Hardacre
Realty, Attorney Joel Mitchell, State Farm Insurance, and the Cherokee Housing
Authority office. There are also two or three residential homes facing Broadway
in that block.
Collinsville
is still on the prime time news beat about 22 hours later with the Tulsa TV
stations still tracking events here as the FAA investigation continues. These
broadcast trucks were parked at 14th and Broadway Monday evening April 8th.
Eye Witness Email
(sent to wrightted@aol.com) |
Sent: Mon, Apr
8, 2013 3:55 pm
Subject: plane crash
My daughter and I were out walking our dogs when we heard and saw everything.
We were a block from the explosion. We were at the scene before the police
or Fire trucks arrived. We stayed for a while but there was such a huge
crowd of people after a few minutes, we decided to leave and let the police
and firemen do their jobs. It was an awful thing to see! Our dogs were
freaking out after a little while because of all the sirens also.
It was an awful thing to see! Thank God no one else was harmed or killed.
It could have been a lot worse!
I will never forget that as long as I live! Either will my daughter!
It was like a scene out of a movie or something. Hard to believe it happened
right in our town! So sad for the families of the victims.
My prayers and thoughts are with them at this very difficult time.
The plane came straight
down from the sky from the south west from where we were. It was moving
so fast, it was like a rocket. I just saw the white paint of a plane
and the wings where inverted. I have never seen anything like it. I
work at an aircraft company and I have never heard of aircraft wings
breaking like that. I wasn’t really sure It was a plane at first.
I thought it may have been a helicopter, the way the wings were as it
came down.
We didn’t see
any parts falling from the sky at our location. When it exploded, we
ran as fast as we could, pulling our dogs with us! My daughter thought
it had hit the church across from the dentist office. But we saw it
didn’t after we got there. After the explosion, there were materials
falling in a very light mist like consistency. It made it hard to breath
after that and the fumes from the aircraft fuel in the air was so thick
that we had to hold our breath for a few seconds to breath after the
explosion.
Hope I don’t
ever see something like that again. It was terrible!
Christie Good-Dixon
(4/8/2013)
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was a witness to the plane crash also. My mother and I were walking our
dogs. Ever since we had walked out the doors they were acting weird and
pulling us along when they never really have pulled us like they were
doing. They wouldn't calm down and everything we did couldn't get them
to calm down. About 5 minutes after we had left the house we started hearing
a loud plane sound and it just kept getting louder and louder. My mother
looked up at the sky before I did as I heard her scream "Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!"
And I looked up and the plane came as fast as a rocket out of the sky
and the wings were bent back. As soon as it hit the ground my mom and
I started sprinting to the scene of the crash. We were about a block away
whem this happened. When we got there only one cop had arrived.
My boyfriend's
dad is the fire chief's son and I called him right away to have him
tell his dad to get down on Broadway ASAP! We stayed at the scene for
around 15 minutes and during that time we saw the body(s) on the road.
It was a very upsetting thing to see. It made me very sad and I did
cry a couple of times. When we were there it felt like the whole town
of Collinsville got there very fast, there was enough crowds around
so my mom and I left because we didn't want to make the firefighters
and police authorities jobs any harder than it already was. My step
dad called me and felt the house shake and thought it was thunder and
looked at the radar and there were no nearby storms and he found out
the plane crashed right after. He called me and asked me where my mother
and I were at and he rushed there right away to see what was left. When
we got home he had to me he saw various body parts in the ditches nearby.
I got inside my
house to call the youth pastor of the First Baptist Church to see if
he was at the church when this had happened. He told me that he was
not there and had no idea that the plane crashed by the church so I
briefly explained to him what had happened. He thanked me that I called.
Therefore, it was a very sad day. I pray for the plane crash victim's
families and I am very thankful that no one on the ground was hurt or
injured.
-Amanda Good
(4/9/2013)
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from another eye witness (who wished to not be identified) Tuesday: They
indicated they were about two blocks east from the crash scene and noticed
the plane had no tail before hearing the engine sputter. The plane then
nose dived with the wings folded back and rolled slightly before crashing.
A huge fire ball arose about 20 feet over the tree line. -- Ted 4/9/2013 |
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