'Ball of fire': 2 dead after plane crashes into parked trucks in Texas

(NewsNation) — Two radical died aft a tiny level crashed into respective parked semi-trucks adjacent Fort Worth, Texas, creating a occurrence that drew archetypal responders from astir the region.

Officials accidental the clang happened astir 1:30 p.m. section clip successful a parking batch adjacent Hicks Airfield.

Fort Worth Fire Department spokesperson Craig Trojacek said exigency crews recovered 2 radical who were dormant astatine the scene, wherever respective vehicles and a commercialized gathering had caught fire. Published images of the aftermath amusement rolling flames and a heavy achromatic plume of smoke.

“We thought we were responding to 2 abstracted incidents,” Trojacek told the New York Times. “Later on, we realized it was each portion of the aforesaid one.”

In a quality release, the section said firefighters brought the blaze nether power wrong 35 minutes.

Gregory Delano, a 20-year-old witness, was astatine a excavation hallway down the thoroughfare erstwhile the clang occurred. He told the Dallas News helium ran to the clang tract and encountered a “giant shot of fire.”

The National Transportation Safety Board said it was investigating the clang of a Beech King Air C90, a twin-engine aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration was besides investigating.

No further details were instantly available.