I was outside talking on the phone in my grandmothers backyard. There is a golf course right back there and then a little further to the right of her backyard is an airport. The airport is part of a school, Tulsa Tech I think.
Anyway, while I was talking on the phone I was looking up and watching the planes flying out and coming in and I saw one kind of flip up and do a nose dive. At first, when it went on its back, I thought it was going to a stunt. However, it instead did a nose dive and I knew something was wrong because of how close it was too the ground. Not to mention it was a Cessna and those aren't exactly acrobatic planes. Trust me, I flew one about two years ago and it was at that school.
I could see the flames burst as the plane smashed into the ground. It was somewhere between 1/2 a mile and 1 mile from where I was and it definitely caught me off guard. I was shocked and we went inside and turned on the news.
After about 10 minutes it came on the television and they said that they didn't know if the plane was landing or taking off. I tried to help so I called in and told them that it was landing. They asked me for an interview
. I think its weird because when they said that I was excited about being on T.v., and albeit nervous as hell, but it was easy how for a moment I could forget the feelings of sorrow for those that, obviously, must have died.
The official news that I heard today from my Aunt was that there were three people in the plane and there was a problem with the engine right after it took off. I assume that he noticed the problem, tried to come back and realized he wasn't going to make it. He then nose dived the plane into a field to make sure that no one else would get killed. I can't imagine the thoughts that were going through his/her head. For all we know they could have made it back, maybe they could have made a safe landing, but rather than risk it he/she took his own life and the lives of his passengers.
I did the interview and told them my story. When I watched it on T.V. later that night it was hilarious, it wasn't me. It was this older guy with a mullet, but what was really funny was that he said some of the exact stuff I told the reporter. I told her how you see stuff like that on T.V. and you don't expect it to happen right in front of you. He said the exact same thing, only differece in that part was I mentioned 9/11. Then later he said how he thought it was going to do an acrobatic stunt...again...just like me
. Do you think its possible that they gave my lines to someone else? lol, oh well, its not that important.
Has anyone else even heard of this? It happened in Jenks. I really hope no one here is related to those who crashed and sorry if my comments about the interview made me insensitive, that was not my intention. Sad stuff...
**edit** Just for the record they came to my house and recorded me. It was the same news reporter as the one I saw on tv. The only difference was after she was done talking they showed Joe Dirt instead of me.**edit**