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Jet Crashes Into Homes In Indiana, A young boy miraculously escaped serious injury when a private jet crashed through his house this evening, killing two people and sending three to the hospital.
Neighbors say the child received only a scratch on his head as the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet slammed through a neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana - plowing through two houses before coming to a rest upside-down in the middle of a third.
The jet was landing at South Bend Regional Airport after a flight from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Four people were aboard the plane at the time. Two were killed. Two were injured, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig told MailOnline.
Additionally, one person on the ground was injured and taken the hospital.
The plane is registered to 7700 Enterprises of Montana LLC in Helena, Montana. The company is owned by Wes Caves and does business as DigiCut Systems in Tulsa. It makes window film and paint overlay for automobiles.
Caves' wife answered the phone at their home on Sunday and said, 'I think he's dead,' before hanging up.
Stan Klaybor, who lives across the street from the crash scene, said the jet clipped the top of one house, heavily damaged a second, and finally came to rest against a third
Neighbors did not know if a woman living in the most heavily damaged house was home at the time, and a young boy in the third house did not appear to be seriously injured, Klaybor said.
'Her little boy was in the kitchen and he got nicked here,' Klaybor said, pointing to his forehead.
Herwig, the FAA spokesman, says there was 'an indication of a mechanical problem.'
The neighborhood has been evacuated because of a gas leak.
Neighborhood resident Stan Klaybor says the aircraft clipped the top of one house, heavily damaged a second, and came to rest upside-down against a third.
Neighbors tell WSBT-TV that at least one of the homes had children in it when the jet crashed.
The six-seat private jet took off from Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, earlier this afternoon.
The Beechcraft Premier I sells for between $2million and $6million and has a top speed of 530mph.
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