Dramatic video shows a single-engine plane crashing in flames close to a busy road in Washington state on Tuesday after clipping power lines.
No one was injured, but several vehicles were damaged as one driver said the small plane made contact with her car.
"I'm so lucky," Amanda Hayes told KOMO News. "I just said, 'Get down!' And before I know it, I could feel the heat on my face ... and like the fireball and the wing clipped at the end."
The plane had crashed on Harbor Point Boulevard after taking off from Paine Airport north of Seattle. The airport said on Twitter that the plane departed from one of their runways and then crashed at the end of it.
No one was hurt, but several vehicles were damaged when a small plane crashed in Washington state on Tuesday.
(Mukilteo Police)
The startling video shows cars waiting in traffic in Mukilteo as the plane descends, leaving fire in its wake.
"I heard an explosion, a big 'boom!' like this, and you saw the smoke blow up and then, 'whoosh' he hit the cars and then he went to to the side of the road," Elaine Warbus told KOMO News.
The pilot was trying to find an empty spot on the road to land after losing power, cops told KOMO News. However, it struck a power line and made contact with a traffic signal and apparently Hayes' vehicle. The plane landed just a few yards from a gas station and a hotel, and close to City Hall, according to KOMO News.
The single-engine plane went down in flames.
(ABC News)
"When it was over, I wasn't sure if we were OK, if our van was OK," Hayes told the station. "I don't know, that's probably the closest I've come to really thinking, 'oh this is the end.'"
The plane was a single-engine Piper PA32, according to KOMO News. Crash-related power outages were restored in the area later Tuesday, according to the Snohomish County Public Utility District.
Why don't you include the full embed code so we can use the on-screen YouTube controls? I dislike this way of presenting YouBoob videos because you can't rewind and watch the good bits repeatedly without having to view the entire clip again.
What a lazy-ass way to post a video clip.
Here is an example of a proper video clip. You can easily view the money shot from 00:20 to 00:25.