Crime & Safety
Eyewitness: Sound of Plane Crash Like 'Dropping a Dumpster but 10 Times Worse'
Andrea Reaber lives directly behind the hangar at Santa Monica Airport where the twin engine plane crashed Sunday evening.
By John Schreiber
Twenty-four-year-old Andrea Reaber lives directly behind the hangar at Santa Monica Airport where a twin engine plane crashed on Sunday evening.
Reaber heard the crash and witnessed the explosion. She told Patch, she first heard the crash and then ran outside. "All of a sudden when we got halfway to our fence we saw the explosion and all the smoke."
The sound of the explosion was "like dropping a dumpster but 10 times worse," she added. "We just heard it hitting the metal [of the hangar].
Reaber said it's the fifth or sixth crash she's remembered seeing at Santa Monica Airport. "We kind of expect [crashes]," she said. "You hear the old [planes] struggling to go up and you hope [the] make it."
Mark Benjamin, Malibu resident and CEO of Morley Builders, along with his son, Luke, were believed to be on board the plane.
