BELLEVILLE, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – The Nationwide Transportation Security Board says each passengers on a MiG-23 jet that crashed on the Thunder Over Michigan air present on Sunday are in secure situation.
The jet crashed simply toes away from the Waverly on the Lake condominium complicated in Belleville.
“You realize, your thoughts is simply in a thousand totally different locations. It is like, ‘Holy crap,’ you understand?” says Waverly tenant Jayse Benson, who heard the jet and noticed it go down from his balcony. “After I heard these two pops, which I discovered was the pilots ejecting, I used to be searching my again door window, and swiftly, I simply type of see a airplane fly that manner, and I am like, ‘Wow, that is actually low.’ Unexpectedly, I see a giant mushroom cloud.”
The jet struck a number of unoccupied automobiles on the condominium complicated however missed hitting the complicated itself. Nobody on the complicated or air present was injured.
“On this case, we now have a pretty big airplane, and the truth that each of the pilots survived and there have been no floor accidents is an excellent consequence,” says John Brannen, a Senior Air Security Inspector for the NTSB.
Brannen says earlier than the crash, the jet was on its second of three passes across the airport as a part of the present.
An investigation into the plane is ongoing. Brannen says it may very well be months till concrete information surrounding the crash can be found.
“We’re arranging to have a restoration crew come get the airplane in order that we will do additional examination off-site,” Brannen stated. “Proper now, all the info that we now have could be very preliminary. I can not actually draw any conclusions from what we all know at this level, and that may take a number of months earlier than we will get additional into the investigation.”
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