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Posted at: 07/03/2009 3:00 PM 1 Dead In Iowa Plane CrashNear Latimer, IA (ABC 6 NEWS) -- One person is dead following an afternoon plane crash in northern Iowa. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Corey says the plane went down just after 1:30 p.m. Friday along County Road C25 (190th Street) near Latimer in Franklin County. Corey says only one person was on board when the single-engine Cessna 172 crashed. There is no immediate word on where the flight originated or its destination. FAA investigators are on their way to the scene. (ABC 6 NEWS)--- Alexis Vosburg was in her backyard when she heard something that sounded like a car crash. "Heard kind of a loud noise all the sadden on the pavement - ran through the trees to see what was out there. The first thing we heard when we came through the trees was "mommy, mommy, mommy so we thought there was a child in the plane." She says the boy's voice she heard was the son of the pilot who died in this accident. She says the man's wife and kids were following him in their car as he flew the plane all the way until the crash. "So I think the plane was kind of following in the air, you know - they could see him from the car, she said she saw him just kind of drop from the sky is how she described it. So they saw the whole thing." The wife of the pilot approached the plane. "I believe she peeked in but nobody went really close," said Vosburg. They were afraid it might explode. It didn't appear that the plane was trying to land on this road. "I don't believe that was the case, there is a set of power lines that runs over the road at about that point but I don't think anybody knows at this point if the power line was involved in that," said Rick Klein from the Iowa State Patrol. The FAA was on scene gathering information they'll pass on to the national transportation safety board, which'll work to discover the cause of the crash, but Vosburg may have discovered one big piece of evidence. "We didn't hear an engine at all, the last thing I expected to see was a plane."
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