Watch: Plane smashes through fence and crashes into car

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Dramatic footage captures a small plane crashing into a car in North Texas over the weekend, with the McKinney Fire Department reporting that it landed on a runway, went through a fence, and collided with a car on the road.

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00:00 Right now we have remarkable video to show you out of North Texas of a small plane crashing

00:05 into a car over the weekend.

00:07 The McKinney Fire Department says it landed on a runway, went through a fence and onto

00:11 the road before a collision.

00:14 Rebecca Butcher with our sister station in Dallas has the story.

00:18 We saw the tail end of it.

00:20 We didn't notice that it hit a car until we got closer and closer.

00:26 Carlos Wiggins is talking about a two-seater plane that went off the runway while trying

00:30 to land Saturday and crashed into a car driving along Virginia Parkway.

00:35 It happened around 12.30 p.m. in McKinney at the Arrow County Airport.

00:39 A passerby happened to take footage that captured the entire incident, which shows that plane,

00:44 a single-engine Lancer 4P, crashed landing and then it went the length of the runway

00:50 and through an airport fence.

00:52 Wiggins saw the aftermath.

00:53 Honestly, it happened so fast.

00:55 It happened so quick.

00:56 We didn't notice it was a plane.

00:58 We just seen a bunch of cars on one side.

01:01 The plane is registered to Ojos Aviation LLC, which is based in Midland, Texas.

01:07 We noticed that a plane, the plane actually collided with the car on the other end and

01:12 we saw the person on the other end.

01:15 They made it out safely, but they was laying on the floor.

01:17 It was pretty crazy, a chaotic scene.

01:20 A chaotic scene that involved three people who were hurt.

01:24 The McKinney Fire Department said two of them were from the plane and the other was from

01:28 the car.

01:29 Three people were treated by first responders on the scene.

01:32 One person was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

01:36 We have not confirmed if the person who was injured in the car was the driver or a passenger.

01:42 The McKinney Fire Department said the plane was coming from Midland and was trying to

01:45 make an emergency landing in McKinney.

01:49 Wiggins was driving with an employee on his way to a moving job for a moving company.

01:53 He owns.

01:55 We both was like, this is unreal.

01:57 You know, it was pretty crazy scenario.

01:59 And yeah, to see that was unreal.

02:03 The NTSB says it's working with the FAA who will conduct a damage assessment of the aircraft.

02:08 It will then provide that information to the NTSB to determine if it warrants a full investigation.

02:14 We hopped out, people hopped out.

02:16 Well, we got on the ground and got to see, you know, up close, but you know, all in all,

02:23 it was crazy.

02:24 What was going through my mind was just like, you know, I hope everybody's safe.

02:28 And yeah, it's just going to be a story to tell.

02:32 Wiggins says he's thankful there were no serious injuries.

02:35 Rebecca Butcher, Fox News.

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