Small plane nose-down on runway with fuel leak, St Joseph County MI
Fire & ArsonA small airplane landed nose down on the runway at the airport in St. Joseph County, Michigan. No injuries or fire were reported initially. Authorities confirmed a fuel leak from the aircraft and contacted the FAA.
Audio|Source: St. Joseph County Sheriff, Police, Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
We're going to be headed up to the airport to handle that welfare check or whatever it turns out to be.
00:05
It sounds like it is going to be an accident now.
00:07
We just had a call from a passerby about a plane nose down in the runway, so we are starting station 7 that direction.
00:16
10-4[1].
00:19
We do make sure 22 is also aware of it.
00:21
I'm clear. I do have 5433 that's out there.
00:24
We're trying to get in contact with somebody from the airport.
00:27
Are there any injuries?
00:30
Unknown.
00:31
At the airport, that's one airport road, again at the airport for an aircraft accident.
00:36
Official 922, I will be clear from us for now, and I'll have to be here for now, and I'll have to be your part.
00:41
I'm clear, 22.
00:42
There's 711, 714, chewing route to the airport.
00:45
We received notification from Air Force that they got a beacon alert from a plane.
00:52
We also had a subject come up to the call box at the PD and advised us that there is an airplane nose down on the runway, unknown on injuries or whether it's on fire.
01:03
Can you put me on follow up at near 4th Street? That's correct.
01:11
Central 5433. 5433, go ahead.
01:12
I am out here.
01:13
We make contact with the fun involved party who's going to show me how to get over there.
01:19
Be out in a second.
01:20
That's clear. 34 to Central myself and 31 are just getting onto the airport.
01:23
That's great.
01:24
Control 922, I'm out.
01:25
Clear, 22. 2.
01:26
2.433 to my trace.
01:32
Last unit on Prime.
01:33
Try again. I, you're covered in wind.
01:35
99.31, central.
01:36
31, go ahead. 10-4[1]. You're going to have a mid-size plane down on the main runway, nose down,
01:41
medium damage.
01:42
The patient seems like he's driving the truck seems like he's fine at this point, no fire damage.
01:47
He says no explosives on board, nothing like that.
01:49
Time clear.
01:50
We will let station 7 now.
01:51
The report central one off the client.
01:54
Click.
01:55
Central 9922. They do have some sort of leak coming from the airplane.
01:59
I'm not sure if it's fuel yet.
02:00
Clear 22. Thank you.
02:01
Taking out of the runway, officers on saying you're trying to determine if it's fuel or not, we're calling the FAA, no.
02:06
7 units here, clear.
02:07
Central 9-922, it is going to be fuel.
02:09
I'm clear 22, I'm fuel.
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10-4: Acknowledgment
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