JUST IN: Officials identify both victims killed in Bucks County plane crash
The view from Chopper 6 showed smoke rising from the downed aircraft in a residential area of Hilltown Township."Meaning one of the pilots already had a private pilot license but was training to receive their commercial pilot license," he said.According to the Federal Aviation Administration , the plane departed from Doylestown Airport and was en route to Gunden Airport in Perkasie.Tariq Thomas' work truck was parked nearby and also caught fire.
"Looked out the door and saw everything was in flames," said Thomas, who ran up from his basement."I just feel really bad for the two lost lives."A propeller sliced through Brian Rush's upstairs bedroom.Rush's granddaughter usually spends the afternoon there with his wife, napping in a crib.In one photo, the crib can be seen near the hole in the wall where the propeller entered the home.
Brian's granddaughter usually spends the afternoon in the bedroom. The crib is where she naps, but she wasn't there at the time."Luckily, they weren't here yesterday. They normally are," Rush said."They were up at my daughter's house instead."The wreckage will be moved to a hangar for further investigation.
"Really we are looking at the pilot, the machine, and the environment, and with the machine we want to make sure obviously the entire airplane is here and that there's nothing missing. We'll just go through, document the airframe, document the engine- really look for any anomalies," Gretz explained. The cause of the accident remains under investigation by the FAA, NTSB, and the Hilltown Township Police Department.
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