An 11-year-old girl survived a plane crash in Michigan on Thursday with only minor injuries. The Piper PA-31 passed out of control near Ludington and crashed in a field and swampy area just west of Ludington, Mich. Photos and video of the plane were shared on Twitter by multiple users, with one image showing a firefighter kneeling down to search the wreckage and another showing rescuers’ tire tracks running in a line through thick grass. “Three moments. Three seconds. Three seconds of horror,” a person who tweeted about the crash wrote.
Ludington police reported that another person, a woman, was found dead at the scene and the identity of the four others has not been released. Ludington Police Sgt. Chad Shaffer said the plane was flying from North Carolina to Holland, Mich. The survivor was flown to a Traverse City hospital and is being treated for a broken leg.
“They started dumping fuel from the plane,” Michigan State Police Lt. Tom O’Banion told WSVN-TV. “They had some emergency slides that were deployed. That’s when the child was able to take the slide and escape the plane.” A Lincoln County helicopter airlifted the girl to the hospital, the Detroit Free Press reported. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were on the scene and will try to determine what caused the plane to go down.
Our thoughts are with the pilot family and the families of the victims after a small plane crashed in Virginia tonight. https://t.co/jbW3tEkL1d — Michigan DOT (@mi_dot) June 29, 2018
Read the full story at the Detroit Free Press.
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