While the details about the plane crash at the Chatham Airport on Friday morning are scarce, the Sydenham Current chatted with a worker at the Ridge Landfill who witnessed the plane go down.
Sonia Heuston, who works in the scale house of the landfill, told the Sydenham Current it was what she heard that caused her to look into the air.
“It was the noise that was not right,” she said. “It was a stuttering. I didn’t know if it was a truck having trouble or whatever. I looked out and it was an airplane, he was just turning around to head back towards the airport. He seemed like he had control because he was going the right way, but no he went down into the cornfield.”
Heuston said she thought she saw smoke at first, but there was no flames.
“So now I’m thinking it was just the dust that came up from under the field,” she said. “Then it was the quick response of the fire trucks and the police… they were fast.”
Heuston said she immediately called into the main office at the landfill site.
“There were farmers in the field and they were starting to run already, so I knew everything was taken care of,” she said. “My boss went over there to see if he could help too.”
Heuston said she was right beside the field when the plane went down, approximately a quarter of a mile from the crash site.
“This is a first,” she said. “They are always flying over here. I tend to remain calm in emergency situations but my heart was pounding. You don’t know if they are okay at first.”
Here is the latest details from the Chatham-Kent police.
We’ll provide more information when it becomes available.
