Pilot, Pregnant Wife And Young Nephews Survive Plane Crash In Wilton

WILTON (CBS13) — Thursday’s level clang is looking similar much of a occurrence successful Wilton arsenic CBS13 has learned 4 household members, including a large woman, fought to prevention each other.

It was a formation we’re told lasted little than a infinitesimal earlier the level plummeted to the crushed landing connected the beforehand tract of a Wilton home.

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We’re present learning much astir the radical wrong that level earlier it exploded into a shot of fire. CBS13 talked with household members who confirmed the aviator is Oren Breedlove, who was flying with his large woman and their 2 young nephews—cousins aged 13 and 17.

One household subordinate said 1 of the boys adjacent jumped implicit the flames to prevention his cousin. Family members besides said a canine onboard didn’t survive.

“I don’t cognize if you tin telephone it a miracle, but it goes to the testament to the spot of this thing,” Alan Casner said of the plane.

Casner, of Auburn, owns a level conscionable similar the 1 that crashed. He describes the AN2 craft arsenic being built similar a tank.

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“It’s precise dense duty. If you deliberation astir the information that those 4 radical got retired of that airplane connected occurrence tells you to the spot and durability of this happening due to the fact that however galore airplane wrecks person you seen wherever radical locomotion distant similar that?” Casner told CBS13.

That heavy-duty level is not each that saved Breedlove and his household members.

“The level deed the ground. I deed the broadside of the roadworthy and grabbed my occurrence extinguisher retired of my motortruck and did what I did,” said Steve Scharf.

Scharf saw the full thing, jumped successful and helped propulsion everyone retired of the wreckage conscionable moments earlier the level went up successful flames.

“I didn’t adjacent deliberation astir each that worldly successful the moment. I conscionable wanted to marque definite those radical got retired safely and I did the champion that I could to marque definite that happened,” said Scharf.

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We’re told Breedlove is DAR certified which makes him the 1 who determines, connected behalf of the FAA, who is eligible to fly.
The FAA is present investigating, but it could beryllium weeks earlier we cognize precisely what caused the level to spell down.

Marlee Ginter