Plane crash sends pilot to hospital, FAA investigating
UNION CITY, Tenn. — A one-passenger plane crashed near an airport in Union City. Josh Parish who lives right across the street from the airport saw the entire crash take place. “My wife saw that a plane had gone down and she screamed and I wasn’t looking the same way, I turned, then all of a sudden, the plane went down,” said Parish Being the only person near the scene of the crash, Parrish says his first instinct was to save the person in the crash. Despite gasoline pouring from the engine, Parrish and his stepson tried their best to get the pilot from the plane. “We tried to pick up the plane and I had my step son with me, and we were just trying to pick up the props and and hold the pressure off of him until the rescue squad got here,” he explained. The pilot was eventually airlifted to the nearest hospital. Other than the pilot, no one else was injured. The cause of the crash is still being investigated.
