Fatal plane crash shakes Fort Worth community – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

The FAA and NTSB officials continue to assess the wreckage and investigate the cause of the crash of a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air C90 crashed shortly after taking off from Alliance Airport Sunday afternoon.

The airport is located about ten miles northeast of the site of the crash. People working at businesses near the 12000 block of Saginaw Boulevard remain shaken by what they heard and saw.

Shaquana Hodges, a massage therapist located feet away from the site of the crash, was with a client when she heard the familiar hum of an airplane.

“You heard like a ‘phew’, like the plane kind of flying over, but sound like it was landing,” Hodges said.

Bob Ashbrook was watching TV around 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

“I could hear propellers, so I knew it was an engine, an aircraft,” Ashbrook recalled. “But he was super low, and it didn’t sound right.”

Moments later, the skies went grey. “I heard this huge boom, shook the ground,” Ashbrook said.

Hodges does not remember feeling her office shake.

“We heard a boom. But we didn’t pay nothing of it because we’re near railroad tracks and a lot of noise,” Hodges said.

It was the sounds that followed that Hodges said made her look outside.

“We heard a couple of more explosions,” Hodges said. “As I was coming out to check, there was this good Samaritan letting us know there was a fire.”

All businesses quickly evacuated their buildings, fearing the property could catch fire.

“It was so dark and muggy, like midnight black,” Hodges said. “Once it impacted, you seen fire in one of the cars also caught on fire.”

While planes have always been part of the background of this area, Hodges and others told NBC 5 the familiar hum is now a haunting reminder of the two lives lost.

“It could have been us. Like that’s all we was thinking, ’cause we were so close to hear the noise,” Hodges said.

While businesses were allowed to reopen on Monday, foot traffic remained slow.

As of Monday afternoon, the names of the two people killed on board a twin-engine aircraft have not been released by the medical examiner’s office.