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 Plane crashes near Miami exit w/ crash-site slide show
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For at least part of Monday, the westbound lanes of the Will Rogers Turnpike around Exit 313 were shut down, and traffic was diverted.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said the crash was reported about 2:15 p.m.
Capt. Ronnie Ross, of the Miami Fire Department, said his department responded to the scene, and that it took fire crews 10 to 15 minutes to extinguish the burning plane. He said the plane was burned so badly that its markings could not be distinguished. He said the plane ended up at the highway divider wall, with debris scattered across both sides of the interstate.
Ross said an ambulance crew was the first to arrive, and that nine firemen responded in three engines and three other vehicles.
Eyewitnesses told authorities that the plane passed low over motels and a business alongside the interstate.
The crash site is about one-fourth of a mile from where Bill Bunch, a Miami firefighter, suffered serious injuries when he fell off an overpass while fighting a fire in November 2006.
Bunch had returned home Monday afternoon from a hospital in Austin, Texas. Initially, there were concerns that the plane that carried Bunch had crashed on its return.
Bunch’s sister, Ronda O’Brien, of Grove, said there had been a welcome event at the airport, and one fire crew and one ambulance crew had accompanied her brother to his home.
“They were just getting him settled in when they got the call about the plane crash,” she said. “They left from there. We’re so sorry that it happened.”
Metro Editor Andy Ostmeyer, and staff writers Susan Redden, Greg Grisolano and Derek Spellman contributed to this report.
Owner of plane
The owner of the plane is listed as Tromsness Enterprises Inc., of Quapaw, according to online records from the Federal Aviation Administration. Tromsness Enterprises also is listed as the craft’s manufacturer.
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