![]() And it doesn't seem to have a lot of parts missing. Whatever it was went through the side of the cone from the inside. "It looks like something was thrown out through the side of the cone. "It looks like something inside of it popped and blew a few holes in it and it came down," he said. It was about 8 feet long, 8 feet high and 4 feet wide, Quirin said in a telephone interview. About 3:30 p.m., employees of Neil Quirin's seed corn company discovered the tail cone in a research plot. Though details were sketchy, the plane`s troubles apparently began about a half-hour before the crash as it was flying above Alta. There was a huge fireball and black smoke from the fuel." The plane tumbled, broke apart and began to disintegrate. He was shooting the runway a little fast. "It was apparent there was going to be a crash. then he began to roll to the right, dipping the right wing and the nose was low. "It came in from the east, heading west," he said. Sorensen landed, then watched in horror as the plane crashed. Sorensen said he was flying a single-seat jet fighter to Sioux City from a training mission in Wisconsin when an air traffic controller told him to land immediately "because a DC-10 was beneath us with an engine out and could only turn in one direction." Rick Sorensen of the Iowa Air National Guard. "It was the most sickening feeling I have ever had," said Maj. I grabbed another, kept pulling them out until they didn`t come no more." Then God opened a hole in the basement and I pushed a little girl out. When the plane came to rest, said passenger Cliff Marshall of Columbus, Ohio, "we were sitting there upside down and it began to fill up with smoke. "I said the hell with it-I'm going for it," he said. Martz said he crawled through a broken window engulfed by flames. We rolled inside and out and all over the place." But just before landing, he said, "the pilot came on and said that this may be more than a rough landing, so do the best you can to assume the (crash preparedness) position. There was no panic after the announcement, said survivor Charles Martz of Castle Pines, Colo. ![]()
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