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We're in the landing pattern of planes, large four engine planes, most of them, that come into the Midway Airport from the southeast.

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Even now, through the day, firemen are poking through the rubble of what were three houses here on the corner, who are more victims of an airplane crash this morning.

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With me is a woman who lived across the street, whose home would have been hit if the plane had not come to rest here across the street.

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Ms. Isabel Berg, could you tell us what happened?

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Well, I got up this morning and my alarm went off about 5.30 and I put the light on and all of a sudden I heard this terrific explosion and a whooshing sound like, well I don't know what it was.

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The whole front of the house lit up and I went out to the front to see what was there and I saw all these houses in flames.

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At the time I didn't know what had happened.

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I thought that a boiler had exploded in the basement of one of them, but later I learned that the plane had crashed into them.

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The flames were sky high and the building seemed to be flattened out and it was a terrible, terrible sight.

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Raymond, can you tell me what happened this morning, just the way it started, the first thing you saw and noticed?

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Well, the first thing I knew, I heard the plane coming down and I knew it was going to hit and then there was a crash and a whole bunch of bricks and rubbers and stuff dumped in on me while I was sleeping through the window.

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I got up in a hurry and there was flaming gasoline all over the place and I ran around a little bit.

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I got chiggered with my head off and I thought of going upstairs but then I thought it hit the top of the house and it was worse upstairs.

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So I went into my dad's room and broke the window over there and he went out the window and then I went upstairs anyway.

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And my uncle took my hand and made me out the front door.