Fatal Plane Crash In Fort Worth
Sunday afternoon, two people died in a plane crash in the 12700 block of N. Saginaw Boulevard in Tarrant County near Hicks Airfield.
Officials started receiving calls around 1:30 p.m. reporting a plane crash on N. Saginaw Blvd. Fire departments were at the scene within 5 minutes. The incident happened west of DFW airport, between Fort Worth Alliance Airport and Fort Worth Meacham Airport. Crews began fighting the fire and had it under control within 35 minutes. After the fire was brought under control, Emergency crews from multiple agencies, such as Tarrant County, Haslet, Lake Worth, Newark, Saginaw, Eagle Mountain, and Fort Worth, responded to the crash.
It’s reported that the plane hit trailers and 18-wheelers, causing a massive fire and sparking grass fires. At least 10 tractor-trailers were damaged in this crash.
A witness, Gregory Delano, who was at a business nearby, says he ran to the crash. “Ran around the corner and just seen a giant ball of fire and smoke… Walked around the fire, not getting too close. Trying to see if there was an access point, maybe a cockpit that I could see or anything that would lead me to anybody that was inside of it, but it was completely engulfed,” Delano said
The two victims who were found dead at the scene have not yet been identified. Another witness, Theresa Brown, who is a neighbor in the area, said, “We ran out here and there was smoke, it was black, but what was bad was the fire. It was so, I mean, you can just feel how intense it was. It was so bad, and people were like, stopping their cars running down there, then … we hear total ‘booms, you just knew nobody survived that… I don’t know what else to say. It’s just heart-wrenching. You don’t wish that on anybody,”
The plane was identified as a Beechcraft King Air C90 according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The FAA is leading the investigation into the crash. Fort Worth Fire Department says the plane took off from the Alliance Airport located in Fort Worth, but they’re unsure where the plane was headed.
Videos from social media show the thick black smoke in the sky from the crash visible from miles away.
