LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The pilot who crash landed in the middle of a busy St. Matthews street dreamed of a career in aviation. And as Evan Peele recovers from serious injuries and burns in the hospital this week, his family said he wants to fly again.
The crash happened around 6 p.m. Oct. 11 near Baptist Health Hospital at Breckinridge Lane and Kresge Way, parallel to a row of apartments. The streets were packed with people driving home from work, out to dinner or shopping in the plazas nearby.
Jessica Deis and her 25-year-old flight instructor, Peele, were on the plane when it experienced engine trouble on a training flight and lost power. Somehow, no one in the plane or on the ground died.
“It’s ‘Thank God’ time,” Bill Menish, Peele’s cousin, said Thursday. “I can’t believe it looks that bad and he’s going to be OK.”
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