ARVADA, Colo. — Saturday marks day two of the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation after a plane crashed in a front lawn in Arvada.
All four people inside the plane were rushed to a hospital with serious or critical injuries after it happened Friday. The NTSB confirmed two people on board were adults, and Arvada police said the other two on board were children.
Randy Hamrick, the homeowner where the plane crashed, explained to 9NEWS how it all unfolded in his front lawn.
“I don’t even know how to explain what was going through my head, I guess, disbelief,” Hamrick said.
He was watching the news with his wife when the plane crashed. He thought a train nearby derailed.
“The house just violently shook, we got a really heavy orange glow through the windows,” Hamrick said.
He said he didn’t know what to expect when he walked outside.
“When I first opened the door, it was just fully engulfed, flames 10-15 foot in the air,” Hamrick said.
The pilot’s conversation with air traffic control gives clues to what happened in the air.
“B-J-C tower, good morning. Bonanza 150 Whiskey Romeo, I am 7 miles to the southeast. I have an oil light on, and losing pressure. Can I get on the ground please, sir?” the pilot said to air traffic control.
“Zero Whiskey Romeo, do you see anywhere that’s safe for you to land?” said air traffic control.
“I’m trying to find a field or a park. I’ve got something in sight, I don’t know where I am,” said the pilot.
Hamrick said he wasn’t even dressed when the plane crashed down, and by the time he quickly put shorts on and ran back out, people were helping the passengers get out.
“I yelled at them '"they were like stay back, we've got everybody out,'" Hamrick said. “They were dragging them around the front of the pick-up out into the street away from the heat and the flames.”
“I wish the best for them,” Hamrick said. “No body lost their life, and everything else is fixable.”
The fire left some damage outside his home that he said is all minor.
“Just from the heat, there is a little bit of melting right here, you see where the window is all cracked up from the heat,” Hamrick said.
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