14 DAY TRIAL // A plane crash took place near Tweed New Haven Airport in Connecticut, as a small aircraft dived into a residential neighborhood.
According to NBC Connecticut, the pilot of the propeller-driven plane issued no distress calls and he was in communication with air traffic control.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Robert Gretz informs that four to six people died in the accident, two or three on the plane and another two or three in one of the houses.
A one-year-old and a 13-year-old are missing from one of the homes hit by the planes. The fuselage had entered the home, East Haven fire department officials state.
The aircraft missed the approach upon landing and ended up in the residential area, but there is no other information about the cause of the crash.
The same publication notes that two homes have been burnt to the ground on Charter Oak Avenue.
“I see it exploding - one after the other. Then I hear a woman coming out of the house screaming for help,” a neighbor identifying herself as Rose describes.
Other Hughes Street residents also noticed the plane gliding at low altitude.
“We heard the plane come over and it got dead quiet. You start to see the plane come down and said, ‘That didn't make it,’” Russel Hickson adds.
“I believed it because it seems like they are awfully low when they come in to land,” Ann Sprague notes.
Tony Brinley recalls the aircraft turning to one side, with its wings perpendicular to the ground before the crash landing.
“He made a turn, but when he turned, the wings were up and down. Then I heard a pop. [...] Wings were perpendicular - straight up and down. I thought the pilot was going to abort. I’ve never seen a plan go so far,” he says.
It hit power lines before bursting into flames.
“I heard a pop. That must’ve been the power lines,” Brinley remembers.