Survivor of Georgetown plane crash Lauren Peralez
GEORGETOWN, Texas — The investigation into a small-engine plane that crashed into the roof of an unoccupied Georgetown home continues.
Officials say three people were on the plane. All three walked away from the crash and were taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Monica Steanson’s daughter was one of the passengers on the plane.
Monday was the first time she actually saw the plane through the roof in person. It was an emotional sight to see, to say the least.
“Super emotional, shocked, grateful, thankful, grateful, in disbelief,” she said when asked how she felt seeing the wreckage feet from where she was standing.
Steanson’s daughter Lauren Peralez was one of three passengers on the plane.
Steanson said Peralez had flown out with friends – Arlene Del Gato and Del Gato’s husband, who was the pilot.
They were headed back to Georgetown Executive Airport from breakfast in Fredericksburg when a pilot’s worst nightmare quickly became a reality.
Above is audio of air traffic control from LiveATC.net moments before the single-engine Beech H35 plane plummeted into a vacant home in the Georgetown Wan Bridge residential community.
“The nose started to go down first, and so he just said pavement was much harder, so he decided to go into the house,” Steanson said.
Steanson says she was told the plane was going about 100 miles per hour when the aircraft made an impact.
She’d seen pictures of the wreckage people showed her but seeing it in person she says really put things into perspective.
“I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe that they walked away from this!” she said. “I honestly don’t know how they survived this.”
Steanson says her daughter was the first one out of the plane. She saw a hole and jumped from the roof to the second story of the home.
Peralez has a broken bone in her back, according to her mother, but her doctors say it should heal on its own.
She and the others sustained burns on their feet from climbing on the scorching roof to get out and minor scrapes and bruises.
All are now out of the hospital.
“Just very thankful to be alive,” Steanson said.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the National Transportation Safety Board will oversee the investigation, moving forward.
The Georgetown Fire Department says it’s waiting to hear back from NTSB and the FAA to let us know when exactly we should expect that plane to be lifted out of the roof.
