Mon, Aug 18, 2003
Three Dead, One Survives With Serious Injuries
We now know the identities of three people who died in the crash
of a Piper Cherokee Six near Iroquois, Ontario, on Thursday:
- Tony Schertzing, 52 and his wife Jane, 47, of Ridgeway,
Ontario
- Michael Anderson, 55, of Fort Erie, Ontario
But the couple's 24-year old daughter was able to survive the
impact.
Mike O'Brien works at a marina near the crash site. He's
accustomed to seeing and hearing aircraft come and go from the
nearby airport in Iroquois. But the 19-year old realized something
was wrong with the Shertzing's Six almost right away. Instead of
climbing above a row of boathouses obstructing O'Brien's view of
the runway, the aircraft continued flying just a few feet above the
ground. "All of a sudden there was this big thud and everything
stopped. There was silence and then nothing," O'Brien told the
Osprey Standard-Freeholder. The Cherokee Six clipped some
trees at the end of the runway, then crashed upside-down in a
marshy swamp not far from the departure end of the runway.
O'Brien says he ran all the way to the wreckage, arriving there
almost before anyone else. Inside the wrecked cabin, he saw
movement. The paramedic student popped out a window and was able to
reach Tara, in spite of the knee-deep water. Other people lifted
the fuselage to keep the young woman's head out of the water.
Eventually, they were all relieved by the arrival of provincial
police and rescue workers.
But O'Brien said he stayed with Tara holding her hand
until paramedics came to attend her. “As I was walking away
she reached out for my hand. I turned around and she said
‘Thank You.’”
O'Brien, overcome with emotion, said he had to turn away so she
wouldn't see the emotions so obvious in his face.
Tara Schertzing is hospitalized in unknown condition. The
Ontario Provincial Police and the Canadian Transportation Safety
Board continue their investigation.
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