2 hospitalized after small plane crash in Bolingbrook, Illinois
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a small plane crash in our area that occurred in Bolingbrook, Illinois, on Tuesday evening.
That plane crashed in an open area of indian chase meadows park after taking off from a nearby airport just before 6:30 p.m.
Residents in the area said they could see it going down — coming very close to homes before the crash.
Some say it didn't immediately seem like a plane crash.
"We heard a loud noise, but we actually thought it was a speed bump and we saw people on the corner," said Esmeralda Carrere.
For people like living near Clow International Airport, Carrere says hearing planes is nothing new, but others say this was different.
"Very scary. Very close to home," she said.
"When I looked up, I saw it. Like I saw the plane nosedive into the ground," said Jason Hoskin.
Hoskin was at home with his family when the plane went down. He ran across the field and was the first person on scene.
He says one of the two people on board was already out of the plane, while the other, he describes as a young woman, was still inside, bleeding.
He says he noticed that gas was coming out of the plane.
"I saw the gas. I saw, you know, a little small smoke coming from the engine. So my first initial, I got to get her out."
He says he unbuckled the woman and pulled her away from the aircraft.
Hoskin says in that moment, he wasn't thinking about the crash. He was thinking about these two survivors' families.
"These are somebody's kids," he said. "I want to make sure they're okay because I have my own."
The FAA says the plane was a Cessna 152 that crashed shortly after departing from Clow International Airport, which is just behind Hoskin's home. He says he never questioned jumping in to help.
"It just teaches me to understand that there are times when things are hard and you have to find a way to keep your composure," he said. "We're all human at the end of the day and we need to make sure that we can be there for one another when it's, when the time is like this."
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating what caused that plane to go down.
Both people on board survived and were speaking to Hoskin in the moments following the crash. They were taken to the hospital and are expected to recover.
