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WEBVTT GATORS BEENABLE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENEDYET?REPORTER: NOT YET, SUMMER.BUT THE FAA AND NTSB ARE JOINTLYINVESTIGATING THIS CRASH.IT WAS A CIRRUS SR20 AIRCRAFTTHAT WENT DOWN IN THE WOODSBEHIND ME.YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THEWRECKAGE.THERE WAS HEAVY FOG IN THE AREAAT THE TIME.IT IS UNCLEAR IF THAT IS AFACTOR IN THE CRASH.>> I HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKETREES COMING DOWN.REPORTER: NEILL FULBRIGHTQUICKLY LEARNED WHAT ACTUALLYCAME DOWN BEHIND HIS HOME WAS ASMALL PLANE, CLIPPING THE TREESAS IT TUMBLED.ALAN KANABY AND HIS WIFE WENDYWERE RESCUED FROM THE WRECKAGEAND FULBRIGHT IS GRATEFULBECAUSE FROM THE LOOKS OFTHINGS, HE DIDN'T KNOW IF ANYONEABOARD WOULD SURVIVE.>> THE WINGS ARE FOLDED BACK ONITS SIDE, THE PLANE IS UPSIDEDOWN, THE ENGINE IS SEPARATEDFROM THE PLANE.I CAN SEE HIS LOWER BODY, HE WASMOVING.BUT THE PLANE WAS ON TOP OF HIM,UPSIDE DOWN ON TOP OF HIM.REPORTER: WHILE ASSURING THECOUPLE HE WAS GETTING HELP,FULBRIGHT CALLED 911 AS DIDSEVERAL OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITYWHO HEARD AN IMPACT, BUT DIDN'TKNOW WHAT IT WAS.>> WE JUST HEARD A VERY STRANGESOUND SOUNDED LIKE A PLANE WAS, FLYING REALLY LOW OVER OURHOME AND THEN YOU HEARD HUGECRASH LIKE AN EXPLOSION ORSOMETHING.REPORTER: AS RESCUERS WORKED TOFREE THE COUPLE, YOU COULD STILLSEE LINGERING FOG.ONE 911 CALLER WHO LIVES IN THEFLY IN SAW THE PLANE LIFT OFF,DISAPPEAR, THEN HEARD THE CRASH.>> WHEN I SAW THE AIRPLANE TAKEOFF IT WAS LITERALLY IN THE FOG.IT WENT DOWN IN A WOODED AREABECAUSE WE COULD HEAR THE TREESSNAPPING.REPORTER: RESIDENTS ARE USED TOTHE FLY-IN AVIATION TRAFFICCOMING AND GOING BUT SAYINSTANCES LIKE THIS ARE A LITTLEUNNERVING FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.>> IT'S A SCARY THOUGHT TO KNOWIT WAS THAT CLOSE, IT REALLYWAS.REPORTER: THOUGH RUSHED TO THEHOSPITAL AS TRAUMA ALERTS, WE'VELEARNED THE VICTIMS ARE DOINGBETTER, STABLE RIGHT NOW.BACK ALIVE, YOU CAN SEE THESALVAGE CREW IN THE WOODED AREA.THEY ARE HAVING TO CLEAR A PATHBEFORE THEY CAN REALLY REMOVEANY OF THAT DEBRIS.THEY ARE BRINGING HEAVYMACHINERY BACK THERE.THEY HAD TO CLEAR THE PATHENTRIES BEFORE THEY COULD DO SO.THAT COULD TAKE A WHILE.WE REACH OUT -- REACHED OUT TOTHE COUPLES' FAMILY.

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