Small aircraft crashes and catches fire near Compark Blvd, Douglas County CO
Fire & ArsonA small aircraft crashed and caught fire near the intersection of Compark Boulevard and Peoria Street, just east of the Amazon sorting facility in Arapahoe County, Colorado. The aircraft is fully engulfed in flames and causing heavy damage. The fire is threatening a nearby generator building. Emergency crews are on the scene.
Audio|Source: Centennial Airport Emergency Operations
07:22
Transcript:
00:00
We have a crash just south of (number withheld) near Sky Harbor.
00:04
Power 5 I copy.
00:06
Do you know what aircraft it is? Power 4.5. Fireport 5[1].
00:07
Coming up on gate 3 now, is that smoke I see?
00:11
Yes, that's the aircraft, uh, yeah, it's on fire.
00:14
Four times, Gabby.
00:15
I've dispatched 4'5, I'm, uh,
00:17
see I'm pulling up on the, just in the airfield.
00:20
Now, we do have smoke, uh, towered via the Dixie fire.
00:25
It looks like it is by the school.
00:29
I copy. Hi Harbor Academy.
00:31
I copy. Just to confirm Sky Harbor is that going to still be on airport property.
00:34
A firm that is on airport property.
00:36
I gotta head around to it.
00:37
I don't know physically where it is but in that area.
00:39
Okay perfect. We've got our crews getting dispatched out and I get him headed that way.
00:42
Report 5 safety-2.
00:43
Safety to Port 5.
00:45
I'm cutting through the airport now.
00:47
I locked open the emergency gates, but it looks like it's possibly on airport property but just off by the school.
00:57
I don't have a visual, but I do see smoke.
01:00
Thank you, Kathy.
01:01
Yeah, I got smoke in the air as well.
01:02
Do you think your best access is going to be off the airport by Sky Harbor?
01:05
Do you have a type of plane that was coming in?
01:09
In Tower Report 5, do you have any information on the aircraft?
01:12
It was Bonanza, 463 tango, so B's a 35 or 36, I'm not sure, but 463 tango.
01:19
And yeah, it's about a mile south-southeast of Sky Harbor over there.
01:25
Not a mile, about a mile south of the tower, just south-southeast of Sky Harbor.
01:29
Okay, Bonanza, aircraft, copy the location, and copy thanks.
01:34
Port five, district one.
01:35
Do we know how many souls are on board?
01:36
And Tower Port 5, do you know?
01:38
What was the question? How many souls on board? Was it a today clear emergency at all, or it just happened? Do you know souls or fuel or anything like that?
01:44
No, so he was in the pattern doing options, and all of a sudden he stopped answering, and then he went down.
01:51
We were reached out to him, and he just went down.
01:53
Okay, copy all.
01:54
No souls, no fuel.
01:55
And I'm in the area.
01:58
I've lost the smoke. Can you see where I am? And point me in from your location?
02:02
Safety 2, I'm not sure.
02:04
Are you the one that's southeast of the field just south of where the museum is?
02:11
I don't have smoke in the air anymore.
02:13
I just to help directly.
02:14
I know it is southwest of your position so you need to turn around and go back to the southwest there.
02:20
I can't tell what those buildings are over there maybe.
02:23
I think somebody said there's a FedEx building over there maybe.
02:26
Yeah, I'm thinking it might be by the UPS.
02:28
I'll have (name withheld).
02:29
Respect safety too.
02:30
Section 2. Now you're heading in the right direction.
02:33
Safety 2, that is correct.
02:35
It's going to be in that area that you just stated.
02:36
Special safety 2.
02:37
Let's go ahead and put the location at Peoria and (name withheld).
02:44
I'm still trying to find better access to it.
02:47
Yeah, this is 4.5.
02:49
It looks like it's just across the street, the east of the Amazon sorting facility.
02:54
I think it's like the Ninja American Samaritans Purse buildings from where I'm seeing the smoke here.
02:59
That's affirmative red to make a right turn right there.
03:02
You're going to go in behind like sporty pickle.
03:06
And dispatch from Safety 2, it's going to be at the corner of Com Parks and Peoria.
03:13
I'm not sure what that large river building is.
03:16
It's going to be in the complex.
03:18
I'll try to get you a better address here in a second.
03:21
We've got one aircraft on the ground fully involved heavy damage.
03:26
Certainly the structure.
03:27
I'll try to get your better size up.
03:28
I'll go ahead and take you in.
03:29
Safety 2 ad copp, you're going to be at the corner of Comparc and Peoria.
03:32
You do have one aircraft on the ground, heavy damage, threatening a structure, investigating 631.
03:36
We're going to go around.
03:42
Yeah. Command, dispatch.
03:43
Go ahead.
03:44
Go ahead and turn around.
03:45
I've got access.
03:46
The gate is open.
03:47
Dispatch, go ahead.
03:48
And sir, since the aircraft is off aircraft property, do you want to move it over to Opts3?
03:52
a negative with the instant keep on 15 and you can show me on the scene I've got one
04:01
bonanza fully involved heavy damage it's going to be threatening a generator bank once we get red to and will be offensive
04:08
Copy remaining on Centair, one bonanza threatening a generator building.
04:13
Red Tews in the area with who, 632.
04:15
If that's different one, extra engine, extra.
04:18
Copy extra engine, extra engine, extra truck.
04:21
And this batch from command, it's going to be 8636, I believe, Comparc, Boulevard, either 8636, Comparc or Peoria.
04:29
Mayn, we'll check 8636 Compart or Peoria, Oliveis.
Police codes explained
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[1]
Fireport 5: Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting
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Location mentioned:
S Peoria St & Compark Blvd, Colorado 80112
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