A
small plane smashed through the roof of an apartment building in
Northern Virginia just after midnight on Friday. Amazingly, only one of
the six people sleeping in the apartment was hurt.
Two kids
and four adults were asleep in the apartment's bedrooms when the
single-engine Cessna 177B apparently ran out of fuel and crashed into
the three-story apartment complex in Herndon, Virginia.
The pilot
and passenger work for an aerial photography company and were collecting
infrared imagery over the Washington metropolitan area when electrical
problems and a stalled engine possibly caused by running out of fuel
dropped the two-seater out of the night sky and into the apartment's
living room.
Both pilot and passenger were hurt, with 61-year-old pilot William
Larson suffering "serious but not life threatening injuries." The
resident suffered minor injuries, WTOP reported.
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