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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 3:38 pm
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Originally Posted by sunnyjl
A friend of a friend lives across the street from the crash site and saw the crash. He said the plane was on fire before it hit the ground. Also, the woman whose home was hit was interviewed on the local radio station, and she said she heard people crying after the plane hit, so people were still alive...
These reports are inconsistent with both the identification of icing as a primary factor and the established angle of intercept with the ground. The impact was probably not survivable.
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