Dramatic Video: Plane Clips SUV | Newsbreaker | OraTV

Host @DavidBegnaud delivers breaking news and today's trending buzz in 45 seconds. wfaa.comROANOKE — The manager of Northwest Regional Airport in Roanoke vowed Monday to see to it that a weekend accident never happens again."When you have enough accidents, either on the trees or the fence or whatever, the issue is not going to go away," Glen Hyde said. "The issue is going to continue to present itself."Hyde said the he plans to work with neighboring landowners and the owner of a private road nearby to make the airport safer.Meanwhile, the FAA is continuing its investigation into the crash, but because the airport is private, FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the organization has "no regulatory authority over safety measures at the airport."After Saturday's collision between a small plane landing at Northwest Regional Airport and a sport utility vehicle on a road at the north end of the runway, Frank and Heather Laudo told News 8 the impact came as a complete surprise."We couldn't see anything at all, and then... all of a sudden... equipment was falling into the car," Heather said.The pilot, William Davis had asked his wife Kandy to shoot home video of his first solo round-trip. William said the video shows the couple driving into plane."I was shocked," he said. "Just from the video that I saw, it looks like they kept going... they didn't stop at the stop sign."But here's what the video doesn't show: The word STOP is actually painted on the pavement, more than 50 feet from the north end of the runway. The angle of the recording does not show where the Laudos' SUV would have stopped.Airport management said drivers are supposed to stop when the runway is active. But moments before the Laudos' vehicle crossed the path of Davis' plane, his wife's recording shows a white vehicle taking the same path.The Laudos said they never saw the plane, even though it was feet away, preparing to land at 65 mph.In the aftermath of the crash, airport manager Glen Hyde can be heard on Kandy Davis' recording yelling, "Is anybody hurt?"Hyde grabbed his first aid kit and ran to the Laudos' vehicle. He immediately asked them whether they saw the stop sign... or the approaching plane."Whatever that is, it fell. Whatever that it is it hit our car," they said."That is the landing gear," Hyde responded. "You got hit by a plane.""I know that!" Heather Laudo said in the recording."Why did you pull out if front of an airplane, is what I wanna know?" Hyde asked."We didn't see it," Frank Laudo said."We didn't pull out in front of an airplane," Heather Laudo added."Yes, you did!" Kandy Davis said.William Davis said he is grateful everyone survived, but after the incident, he has decided to give up flying, saying it was all too traumatic — even though he was just four weeks away from receiving his pilot's license."Things like that make you reconsider what is important and what could have happened," Davis said. "I have a young daughter and a wife, and they need me to be there to take care of them."Northwest Regional Airport has tried to purchase the property where the private roadway exists to enforce safety measures, but said the owner has declined the offer."I will be talking with the FAA tomorrow in an effort to explore options to make the private road not owned by the airport safer," airport manager Glen Hyde said.The owner of the road, Ray Foster, told News 8 he has never been contacted about efforts to add signage or make any other changes to the road in question.~*!*~*!*~*!*~*!*~*!*~*!*~*!*~*!­*~*!*~SUBSCRIBE to Ora TV's YouTube Channel for more NewsBreaker videosFACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/NewsBre... http://twitter.com/newsbreakerTUMBLR: http://nboratv.tumblr.com/STORIFY: http://storify.com/newsbreakerCHECK OUT our homepage: http://www.ora.tv/newsbreaker

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[Bealio]

Sounds like a woman was driving...

[maggot1111666]

Rolled threw a stop sign 50 feet away? Still could have hit the plane with different timing.

[MusicIzLife7]

My brother works at this airport!! He has cleaned that plane that crashed and knows the pilot...... Anyways people need to learn to drive...

[setarcos4131]

lol stupid drivers, take the damn bus you dont deserve to drive

[Macaframa1]

of course!

[GarretTheShadow]

wow