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Since it shaved off a wing, which then caused the crash...looks like it hit the pole

Could not one of those taller towers have shaved off a wing?

If it hit a telephone pole without hitting those transmission lines, then it would have had to have flown under the wires, missing the towers? Those towers run adjacent to the beltway on the south side, how could it not have hit them prior to hitting something else? Debris hit cars on the beltway.

Plane crashes en route to Hobby Airport
08:26 AM CST on Monday, November 22, 2004
From 11 News Staff Reports

A jet passenger plane with three people aboard crashed near the Beltway Monday morning between Mykawa and Cullen. Three fatalities has been confirmed. The crash debris has closed the Beltway in both directions in that area as well as the feeder roads between Cullen and Wayside.
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Shown is the lightpole that the pilot apparently clipped prior to the crash in the 5400 block of the Sam Houston Tollway Monday morning.

Witnesses reported hearing a large boom around 6:15 a.m.
According to 11 News helicopter pilot Greg Walsh who is in the area, a Gulfstream jet plane crashed while on approach to runway 4 at Hobby Airport. The plane crashed in a field off the 5400 block of the Sam Houston Tollway. Roger Smith from the City of Houston Aviation Department said the plane was inbound from Dallas Love Field and had three people aboard when it crashed around 6:19 a.m.
"He took out the top half of a light pole into Hobby," said Walsh. "He should not have been that low. All I can see that's left is just the tail section. It's absolutely catastrophic."
Walsh said the pilot just missed a large set of powerlines in the area.
The crash site is in the 5400 block of the Sam Houston Tollway.
Jack Williams of the Houston Fire Department said, "we've got stuff strewn everywhere." The plane wreckage was still burning as of 7 a.m. and fire crews were out in the field to douse the blaze and search for victims.