Bimini Plane Crash Pics...

[Deep C]

Should be wonderful time. Great calm weather. billfish biting... muttons solid off the cut. Then in a second a show boating idiot brings it all to a a grinding halt. Families involved could use a prayer guys...
Worst night i can ever remember! Had walked up the hill for conch tidbits...they were closed. Walked north toward big johns... Suddenly I'm looking at the under side of a plane banked close to 90 degrees and way too low. A flash! I feel the heat and in slow motion a cut power line recoiling at me.
The flame is long. I run like i have never run toward what will soon prove to be hell.I see smoke and after a hundred yard hard dash I see debris field.
I crossed under a second set of downed power lines. A family on the beach has been sprayed with burning fuel. I race into the water. No mask and the plane in three big pieces no idea where to look first. I see the shadowy figure of a body but too late. I return to the beach and help calm the family who's toddler was burnt pretty bad.
Made for a long couple hours after that. Replaying in my head the tragedy. Got back to the boat and the power was out but not all the way off. The low voltage fried the pump for my AC so I spent night McGyvering a kind of fix. Just as well I would get no sleep any way. Two fatalities. A pregnant girl and a show boating a-hole... The girl was local hitching a ride to nassau... Baby transferred to burn unit in Miami this morn. I'm done emotionally spent...

THe second set of power lines did him in...



The smouldering wing tip rests on the hill.


Didn't end good for anybody. Especially her...


The debis field in wide angle from where that family was just playing on the beach...
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[Deep C]

Bahamas (KTNV) - A Las Vegas woman and her son are recovering after being burned when a plane crashed just off the shore in the Bahamas. It happened around 6pm. The plane had just left the Bimini Airport. Bimini is a small island of the Bahamas not far from the Florida coast. It's not known where the plane was going.

Witnesses report seeing the plane fly low before it clipped a power wire and crashed into the water about 30 feet from shore. Fuel from the plane spilled onto the beach. Two people inside the plane died.

Toursits from Las Vegas, who were on the beach, were burned by the fuel. The mom and her two year old son have third degree burns over 70% of their bodies

[Deep C]

Melted down a couple times today. Helps heal is what I'm told. Power on and off all day. Each time it goes off it brings me back to those horrific seconds...

[Hatterized]

Deep......prayers for all those involved in what is a senseless accident.....

hopefully you'll hook upto a big blue to ease your traumatic experience.....

[Water_Rat]

Sorry you witnessed such a tragic event. Thank God you were there for those unfortunate visitors from Las Vegas. I was in San Diego when flight 144 crashed and was at the scene shortly afterwards. I was surprised with the emotions that happen to you afterwards. Things will get back to normal. Just another one of those senseless things that happen that we are helpless to do anything about. Prayers to the families involved.

Mark

[Avenger]

I see you weren't too traumatized to grab a camera.

Saw a woman get clobbered by a drunk in a Buick once. You replay it in your head for a while, especially when you're trying to sleep and have nothing else to keep the brain busy. Eventually you'll adjust to it.

Hopefully the kid and mom will make a quick and full recovery.

[TimW Texas]

Wish you the best it comes in different forms like some have described Post traumatic syndrome again wish you the best

[Deep C]

As for camera. I had it with me as i was walking through town... Colorful place...

Swell kicked up in the night and washed all the wreckage ashore. I just went and sat in the middle of the debris field for a while. Brought me to terms with how hopeless it was from the get go. Looking close at the twisted remains it became clear that nobody could have under any circumstance made it out of there... I had felt some how bad that I might have missed something when I dove to try and rescue any tht might have survived. Diving into water covered with burning fuel didn't bother me it was necessary to try. It bugged me that I had quit so quick though. I saw the one body and knew it was done... Still I had no way of knowing if there were others in side trapped in seat belts... Seeing it close today let me really know it was done before it came to a stop...

[Avenger]

it comes in different forms like some have described Post traumatic syndrome again wish you the best

Exactly. The woman hit by the Buick wasn't a family member so it passed in a relatively short timeframe. Losing my dad at a fairly young age, not so much. Everybody handles these things differently and I'm sure the violence of the event plays a part.

It's a natural human feeling to feel guilty about not being able to be the hero in any circumstance. It's part of our culture. Unfortunately it's an ideal that's nearly impossible to live up to.

This too, shall pass..............

[Deep C]

I think what set this tragedy apart from others have been around was a number of things. Instantly went from shock of seeing plane that close to me to horror at the first explosion to terror as that powerline snapped back at me to more adrenaline than I have ever had pump through my veins. Jumping into burning water is not a natural thing for somebody who is thinking but I was on auto pilot at that point. I think the water itself kind of shocked me back to some thinking... and the signals of what to do or react just get scrambled. A mix of emotions and adrenaline overload had me screwed.
Days later now the horror and profound depression have indeed eased. I still see, hear, smell, and feel it all but I grow number to each wave of it. I'll be ok... This too shall pass is one of the phrases I live by... I havn't had a drop pass my lips for ten years but that urge has been sharp and fresh for days now... Its a good thing. Gives me something else to concentrate on...