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Plane Crashes Into Lee's Summit Home
2 People Reported Dead
Posted: 8:07 a.m. CDT July 18, 2002
Updated: 9:46 a.m. CDT July 18, 2002
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- A light plane crashed into a Lee's Summit home Thursday morning, KMBC reported.
The plane went down on the west side of the Lee's Summit Airport around 7:30 a.m.
KMBC's Donna Pitman reported that an instructor and student pilot were on board the plane. They died in the crash.
The homeowner told Pitman that he and his wife had just finished breakfast when the plane hit the house. They escaped unhurt.
"We had already eaten breakfast, the kitchen is right where the house got it, and all of sudden there was a real large explosion. I thought it was an LP tank or something like that had gone up. It was very loud and fire went everywhere. And within just seconds, there was fire inside the room. We ran downstairs, we had a couple staying with us, and got them up and got out. We had another exit in the house. So we were able to get out," homeowner Dale Bear said.
Bear said that he got the garden hose out and tried to put out some of the flames. He said fire crews arrived quickly and took control of the situation.
Living right near the airport, Bear told Pitman that he thought something like this could happen, but never imagined that it ever would.
It's the airport where I am learning to fly. The news said there was probably a problem after takeoff. They don't know if the pilot called an emergency on the radio, because the airport does not have a control tower. A witness said that the pilot's landed the plane on the road. Then a wheel broke off and it skidded into a house and caught fire.
2 People Reported Dead
Posted: 8:07 a.m. CDT July 18, 2002
Updated: 9:46 a.m. CDT July 18, 2002
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- A light plane crashed into a Lee's Summit home Thursday morning, KMBC reported.
The plane went down on the west side of the Lee's Summit Airport around 7:30 a.m.
KMBC's Donna Pitman reported that an instructor and student pilot were on board the plane. They died in the crash.
The homeowner told Pitman that he and his wife had just finished breakfast when the plane hit the house. They escaped unhurt.
"We had already eaten breakfast, the kitchen is right where the house got it, and all of sudden there was a real large explosion. I thought it was an LP tank or something like that had gone up. It was very loud and fire went everywhere. And within just seconds, there was fire inside the room. We ran downstairs, we had a couple staying with us, and got them up and got out. We had another exit in the house. So we were able to get out," homeowner Dale Bear said.
Bear said that he got the garden hose out and tried to put out some of the flames. He said fire crews arrived quickly and took control of the situation.
Living right near the airport, Bear told Pitman that he thought something like this could happen, but never imagined that it ever would.
It's the airport where I am learning to fly. The news said there was probably a problem after takeoff. They don't know if the pilot called an emergency on the radio, because the airport does not have a control tower. A witness said that the pilot's landed the plane on the road. Then a wheel broke off and it skidded into a house and caught fire.
