Plane crashes directly in front of Blue Angel Elementary

Plane crashes directly in front of Blue Angel Elementary

Three family members, including a teacher at Blue Angels Elementary School, survived when a single-engine aircraft crashed directly in front of the school and burst into flames near the main entrance to the school at Blue Angel Pkwy. and Dog Track Rd. The crash occurred on July 29 at around 2:30 p.m. Phillip Keever, his wife Tiffany and their teenage son were aboard the plane when it crashed and are expected to recover, according to the Pensacola News Journal. Firefighters from Naval Air Station Pensacola and Escambia County Fire Rescue quickly extinguished the fire from the wrecked fixed-wing aircraft. Escambia County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Steve Booth told PNJ that U.S. Navy students who happened to be driving by responded and pulled the occupants from the burning plane. “I spoke with the first student who made it up to the plane,” Booth said. “He said as soon as it hit, it burst into flames. God love those kids who stopped and pulled them out.”