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No never heard about it, where did this happen?

OK I'll ask again! Where and when did this happen?!
I have searched the internet and yet to find anything on it,

Posted on Mon, Sep. 27, 2004
 
SoCal women thankful to survive after plane crashed into their car

Associated Press

FULLERTON, Calif. - A mother and her daughter said Monday they were thankful not to be hurt when a small plane crashed into their car shortly after taking off from an air show.

The plane crashed almost immediately after taking off from the Fullerton Municipal Airport on Saturday, seriously injuring the two men inside. Jay Yoshinaga, 45, of Gardena, and Anthony Albanese, 46, of Brea were listed in critical condition at the UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, hospital spokeswoman Marcida Dodson said Monday.

The 1986 Bushmaster, a replica 1920s Ford tri-motor plane, crashed seconds after takeoff, just missing the control tower and slammed onto a street, sideswiping Rebecca Perez's Hyundai Elantra. The plane broke apart on impact and erupted in flames.

"There was this real loud bang and air bag going off, crashing noise and ... it stopped my car," Perez, 58, of Buena Park, told KCAL-TV. She was on the way to a doctor's office with her 32-year-old daughter, Valerie Perez.

"We were just baffled and then immediately people came. I was just saying 'Save us Jesus, save us Jesus.' She was like, 'Mom, mom, what happened?' I said 'I don't know, I don't know.'"

Both women were treated for cuts and bruises and released from the hospital.

"It just make everything else, you know, problems and things, so minute," Valerie Perez said.

The crash occurred in front of hundreds of people who were at the small Orange County airport for "Airport Day." The National Transportation and Safety Board was investigating the cause of the crash.

As an air show freak I always hate hearing news like this. I've never been lucky enough to see one but I would hardly call a Ford Trimotor a small plane. I suppose it depends what you compare it with.

Thanks Hager!
But I tried the link and they want way too much info just for me to view the news. I hate that!!
I have noticed this is the trend with many major newspaper sites as well, you have to fill out a "credit application" in order to read the news. Well those type sites can just leach info from someone else I don't need it, hell by the time you fill out all the info it is no longer news!!

"I'd say he's a super hero," he said of the pilot. "It looks like he not only got it off the ground, saved all the people and planes out on the runway, but managed to bring it over here and dump it in the street rather than hitting the buildings or the cars or anything else."