Month: April 2003

They are saying 5 people died in the crash. So horrible.

Here is what I saw standing at the fence in my neighbor’s backyard. The people standing there are blocked by police tape. They are standing on an embankment up from the railroad tracks. If I’m not mistaken, based on another photo I have that’s not as good, the plane is actually just on the other side of the man standing to the far right. We couldn’t get any closer because there is a chainlink fence to keep people off the tracks. I assume the people you see here walked from buildings beside the crash site. I think I also saw someone who worked for the railroad. They need to determine when they trains can start running back through there again, and make sure the explosion and fire didn’t disturb the tracks. You know, little things.

The white stuff in the foreground is all the sleet/hail from last night. It looks like snow but it’s all little ice balls.

I was right…it was landing. (I say that because when that plane takes off you know it. You can hear it coming. If my neighbors didn’t hear the plane before the crash it had to be coming in. Normal flight path? Directly over my house.

http://www.whdh.com/news/articles/local/A11292/

If you’ve been following the news and saw that there was a plane crash in Leominster I just wanted to tell you that we’re okay, and that it crashed behind my neighborhood. As in we walked to the far end of my neighbor Amanda’s yard, and you could see the flames on the other side of the commuter rail tracks. I couldn’t see the plane, but could see the police line tape and the water coming out of the hoses. THAT is how close this was to my house.

Just got in from talking to the neighbors who live closest to the site and they all heard it (we were coming home from swim lessons and as we approached our neighborhood all I could see was billowing smoke. VERY disconcerting. )

If it was the plane I think it was, we hear it all the time, it’s a little commuter Jet (I’m not sure that was the plane, but they did say it was 6-passenger.) I tried to take pictures but I don’t think any came out. It’s drizzling freezing rain (the reason for the crash, I believe) and everything was on the far side of a little rise. If a photo came out, I’ll post it.

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