I live about 2 miles from the crash site...The picture in the news story shows the toll plaza looking east back towards my house...
We didn't hear it, but after a short while we got wiffs of fuel smell in the air, and heard numerous emergency vehicles running west towards the crash site...We're about a block south off the Beltway 8 road...
There is an electrical easement on the south side running parallel to BW8...They have not reported any transmission line damage as yet...If it had hit, our neighborhood probably would have been in the dark this morning at about 6:26am...
I agree its strange that that is not the case...Linear distance from the transmission lines in that area to the light poles at the toll plaza is only 150 feet at best...
It'll all come out in the wash though...
I figure the fog this morning played a big roll in the accident...I hear the plane left Dallas Love Field early this morning direct to Houston Hobby...
The air charts may or may not show the light towers and or the transmission lines...On those particular approaches to Hobby...I think there is an altitude requirement to show them on the charts as a hazard...They may not be high enough to display...I bet that point coems out in the investigation though...
Later,
Steve
The freeper pilots will have to give us some insight on an instrument landing since there is not way the pilot had a visual on the runway. The report said the airport was about 1.5 miles from the crash site. Seems a bit further to me, maybe 3-5 miles.