4-year-old boy, grandparents survive Illinois plane crash
Posted March 13, 2019 11:42 am.
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WATERLOO, Ill. — Authorities say a 4-year-old boy and his grandparents were rescued after their small plane crashed in southern Illinois.
The fixed-wing single-engine Piper PA-32 was travelling from Mobile, Alabama, when it went down Tuesday in rural Monroe County on its way to St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, Illinois.
The plane crashed into the yard of Waterloo police officer Trin Daws. He says he and another man broke the plane’s windows with a fire extinguisher and pulled the boy out.
Sheriff’s Maj. Jim Lansing says the boy and his two grandparents were talking and conscious when they were taken to hospitals. He says they suffered injuries that weren’t life threatening.
Lansing says the grandmother told authorities a warning light went on, oil was spewing onto the windshield and they couldn’t see.
The Associated Press
