Loved ones of pilot Darren Mohle are thankful he’s alive after a plane crash in Oceanside Thursday afternoon.
“As soon as it said, 'Darren' and 'plane crash,' the only thing I thought was ...,” Patti Thompson, the injured pilot’s future mother-in-law, told ABC 10News.Thompson and Horton started to fear the worst had happened to their soon-to-be-family member immediately after hearing about the incident.Oceanside Police and the FAA said that a plane that Mohle and another man were in crashed near the Oceanside Airport at around 12:45 p.m. Thursday, with both men taken to local hospitals.
“I mean, you hear plane crash, and you think the worst. But thankfully that’s not the truth,” Horton said. But Mohle’s future mother-in-law told ABC 10News he has some fractures in his back, lacerations, and badly hit his head. Thompson said that Mohle was training the other person onboard to pilot the plane for skydiving.
“He’s an instructor over at Palomar . He was also one of my first instructors in flying and my daughter's, also. I mean, that’s how we met him,” Thompson said.
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