Posted on 06/06/2003 5:30:02 AM PDT by runningbear
And so damn cosmically WRONG - I even question God on this (And I hope He doesn't get too annoyed with me for it)and I have no personal feelings towards these people. I mean, how much can one family endure?
Plane Crashes Into Apartment Building Crash Ignites Huge Blaze
POSTED: 3:56 p.m. PDT June 6, 2003
UPDATED: 5:42 p.m. PDT June 6, 2003
LOS ANGELES -- A small plane nosedived into an apartment complex Friday, setting the three-story building ablaze.
Fire officials have confirmed at least one fatality. Authorities say the victim was someone on board the plane, however it is unclear how many people were onboard the plane.
Plane Crashes Into Apartment Building Officials say they are treating the scene as a crime scene until they have more details.
There was a massive, immediate response by police and fire crews and the investigation was expected to take a long time, according to officials.
Fire crews evacuated nearby residents and news crews due to a possible chemical hazard.
At least seven people were treated for injuries. Five of the victims were critically injured, said Fire Department Battalion Chief Bob Franco. At least one person was seriously injured.
The plane that crashed orriginated from Santa Monica Airport, according to FAA officials. The plane had the capacity to hold four people, but it is unknown how many people were onboard.
Victims have been transported to Cedars-Sinai and Midway hospital.
At least 75 firefighters battled the flames while treating victims in a makeshift triage unit.
The number of casualties was not known, police Officer Jason Lee said.
The plane apparently hit the top of the building and plunged straight through to the ground floor.
The crash ignited an intense blaze. The smoke could reportedly be seen for miles. Eyewitnesses said the impact was intense and the smoke was very thick and black.
The crash reportedly occured on Spalding Street, just south of Melrose Boulevard, and about a block away from Fairfax High School.
Police and firefighters helped stunned residents from the structure that had at least 30 units.
A resident of the area told reporters that the plane went into the buildng about 3:50 p.m.
"I looked up and saw the plane just do a nosedive," Aaron Hooker said. "It didn't seem real."
A Federal Aviation Administration duty officer said she knew only that a small plane had crash.
"The impact of the plane blew my windows out," said witness Jeff Harris.
Harris said he saw other residents with burns and injuries as he ran to rouse his landlord.
"You couldn't see anything it was all just flames," Harris said.
"There was a man who jumped from the second floor to the concrete. He hit the concrete and they carried him off. The first ambulance arrived probably five minutes after the crash. I saw a couple of secret service agents," said eyewitness Chris Hoffman.
Hoffman said residents were running around after the crash and trying to account for their neighbors.
An eyewitness said he heard the aircraft and looked up and saw the small aircraft engaged in a spiral nosedive. The witness believed the aircraft was plummeting at several hundred miles. He said he saw a huge fireball upon impact. "There's no chance anyone could have gotten out of that," the unidentified witness told NBC4.
STREET CLOSURES: Melrose Boulevrad is closed from Fairfax to Gardner.
I was saying something similar on a thread not too long ago about a guy who killed his kids and then himself while his wife was "out with friends" for the night(she discovered the scene when she came home the next morning), as they were getting divorced.
If people would just walk away and give themselves a few months out of the arena of their passion play to regroup and get some perspective ... spouse-killing, suicide, all that....it doesn't have to happen.
Does Geraldo get his $50.00 from Geragos now?
Fair and balanced act again???
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