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2010-02-07 05:40:43 - Vehicle Accident - USA EDIS CODE: VI-20100207-24825-USA
Date & Time: 2010-02-07 05:40:43 [UTC]
Area: USA, State of Colorado, , Boulder Number of death person(s): 3
Not confirmed information! Description: Two planes collided in midair Saturday in Boulder, Colorado, killing three people, authorities said. Rick Brough of the Boulder County Sheriff's Department did not release any information regarding the victims, and it was not immediately clear how many people were on board the planes when they collided. One of the planes was towing a glider. After the collision, the pilot of the glider was able to detach from the plane and land safely, Brough said. Brough could not identify the type of planes involved. He said the debris field was spread out over a couple of miles. Authorities began receiving reports of a plane crash around 1:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET), Brough said, adding that people had seen flames in the air in an area less than five miles from the Boulder Municipal Airport. "I was in my house and I heard a loud bang," iReporter Zac Mitchell, of Boulder, told CNN. "I looked out my window and saw a giant fireball in the sky." When he went outside, he said he saw smoke and two objects, including a parachute, falling from the sky. "It was quite a shock, it happened right in front of me," he said. Brough said a parachute did deploy from one of the planes, but that no one was attached to it. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are involved in investigating the incident, Brough said.
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