Truck Driver Nearly Hit By Plane During Crash On I-285
A truck driver says the small plane that crashed on an Atlanta interstate highway this morning had grazed the hood of his tractor-trailer before hitting the median wall.
Gerald Smith says he tried to walk over to the wreckage, but that it was burning so badly, there was no way to try to help anyone out of the plane.
One motorist says he saw the plane nearly hit a highway traffic light pole. Don McGhee says, “It looked like it was struggling.” He says the plane “was edging up, and then it just dropped.” And then “it was just a huge fire, just smoke and fire.”
All four people aboard the plane died. The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane apparently developed trouble soon after taking off from DeKalb Peachtree Airport.
Investigators now say they’ll have to reconstruct a plane that crashed into an Atlanta interstate to determine what caused the plane to go down.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Eric Alleyne said during a press conference that reconstructing the plane may take about two weeks, and a report on the cause of the crash may take between six months and a year.
Alleyne said it was unclear if the pilot made any emergency calls after taking off.
The Georgia Department of Transportation has released the traffic plan below to relieve traffic on Interstate 285.
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