Crews pull wrecked plane from Umstead
SOME IMPACT IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC
ON THE ROADS AROUND THE
TRIANGLE.
>> KAT CAMPBELL LIVE IN THE
STORM TRACKER, THANK YOU.
>>> TODAY CREWS STARTED
RECOVERING PIECES OF A SMALL
PLANE THAT KILLED TWO PEOPLE.
IT WAS FOUND IN A RUGGED WOODED
AREA IN THE MIDDLE OF OLMSTED
STATE PARK YESTERDAY AFTER
DISAPPEARED FROM RADAR SUNDAY
NIGHT.
WRAL IS THE ONLY TRUE THERE
WHEN CREWS PULLED THE WRECKAGE
OUT OF THE WOODS TODAY.
AMANDA LAMB CAPTURED EXCLUSIVE
VIDEO OF THE OPERATION.
>> Reporter: WE HIKED IN A
LITTLE MORE THAN TWO MILES TO
THE SPOT, THIS IS WHERE THE
PLANE WENT DOWN, INVESTIGATORS
IN THE WOODS WORKING.
THEY ARE GOING TO BE BRINGING
UP THE PIECES, AND PUTTING THEM
ON THIS TRUCK, AND TAKING THEM
TO ANOTHER LOCATION, WHERE THEY
CAN EXAMINE THEM.
IT IS ONE THING TO SEE VIDEO OF
A PLANE CRASH ON TELEVISION.
IT IS ANOTHER THING TO SEE IT
IN PERSON.
>> SOMETHING YOU WOULD EXPECT
TO SEE ON YOUR MORNING BIKE
RIDE.
>> NO, NEVER.
>> HAPPENED TO BE WALKING MY
DOG IN THIS AREA, TWO OR THREE
HOURS BEFORE IT ACTUALLY
HAPPENED, SO IT IS UNFORTUNATE.
>> Reporter: IS INVESTIGATORS
EXTRICATED THE WRECKAGE OF THE
SMALL PLANE THAT CRASHED IN THE
MIDDLE OF OLMSTED PARK SUNDAY
NIGHT, FROM A HEAVILY WOODED
AREA, PARK GOERS PAUSED FOR
THEIR DAILY EXERCISE TO
REMEMBER THE VICTIMS.
>> IT IS JUST REALLY SAD, IT IS
DEVASTATING TO SEE THAT.
>> Reporter: THE PILOT, 72-YEAR-
OLD HARVEY PARTRIDGE, A
VETERINARIAN IN ST. PETERSBURG,
FLORIDA, AND HIS WIFE,
PATRICIA, DIED IN THE CRASH.
FRIENDS SAY HE WAS AN
EXPERIENCED PILOT.
HE TOLD TRAFFIC CONTROL HE WAS
HAVING A HARD TIME SPOTTING THE
RUNWAY IN THE DARK.
SEARCHERS FOUND IN THE PLANE
NEAR AN AREA OF THE PARK KNOWN
AS CEMETERY HILL.
NICKNAMED THIS, BECAUSE OF AN
OLD CEMETERY THAT SITS NEXT TO
THE TRAIL.
THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION
SAFETY BOARD IS NOW IN CHARGE
OF THE INVESTIGATION.
MAC I AM GLAD THAT THE RANGERS
LOCATED THE SITE AND THEY ARE
GOING THROUGH THE RECOVERY
PROCESS, GOOD TO SEE THAT.
>> Reporter: IT IS NOT EASY
GETTING THE PARTS OF THE PLANE
OUT OF THE WOODS, THIS PART WAS
ON THE GROUND, THERE IS ANOTHER
PART IN THAT TREE, THEY HAVE TO
ACTUALLY CUT THAT TREE DOWN TO
GET IT, THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE
THEY HAVE ALL OF THE EVIDENCE
SO THEY CAN THOROUGHLY
INVESTIGATE THIS CASE AND
FIGURE OUT WHY TWO PEOPLE DIED,
AMANDA LAMB, WRAL NEWS,
OLMSTED STATE PARK.
>>> THE NTSB TELLS IT AS IT