Plane crashes into San Diego neighborhood with Alex Stone

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, of course, on this show, we bring you
to deliver the hard hitting.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
News, hitting news.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
And the hard hitting news.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Today, McDonald's brings back squish mellows happy meal.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Huh right, what is squish mellows?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
I don't know that is I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Is it like a cartoon character or is that a food? Uh?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, okay, it's to the delight of kids and parents alike.
I know that, and Alex Stone's joining us now on Alex.
I don't know if you've ever heard of a squish mellow?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Have you heard me?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Have my kids love them? We always my daughter loves them.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
They're like really soft, squishy, kind of stuffed animally things
kind of look like they're maybe from Japan.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
You don't need them, so it's not a food.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
No, No, you don't want to eat because it.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Would be a mixed squish mellow if it was food.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
No.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
If you go to Costco, they typically have like big
squish mellows, they are like super soft, kind kind of.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm tempted to go buy the kids some happy meals.
Could remember what happened with those beanie babies when they
put those in the happy meals?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
That's right, Yeah, there's ended up being worth millions.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Right, I could finance my hair transplants.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh man, that would take millions.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
To tell you buy millions of these and they don't
do anything.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, there's that. I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
The only I guess the only people consuming these are
you know, if you have a pet at home, who's
going to be like, oh, I got new Each happy
bill my happy meal box contains one of twelve many
squish mellows, and they're including By the way, I've never
seen intergalactic axel total.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I don't know how to say that.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
An ax lotto, an ax lottle, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Why does Alex the serious newsman know these things?

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Do you know the acx lotto? It kind of looks
like a frog type thing.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
He's saying it like it's normal vernacular. You listen to him,
he's like axe lottle. I mean, he's saying.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's having a having a daughter that because she's into
axe lotto's and she's into squish mellows and I always
play with them that axe lottos are not real because
my kids like axe lottles, but they are real. They're
at the aquarium and kept saying it I claim kind
of like narwhals, that they're not real, but they are real. Hey, Alex,

(02:08):
my son loves axel wattles.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
We play with them, all shut up.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
He did a report on it earlier this year.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
So see, at least we have an education exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I just wanted to point that out.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
That smarter than the two people in the studio.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
They are very cute.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah not Zach, He's not cute.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh, the ax Lottles.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I got you this particular one, the one that's never
seen before, including I never seen intergalactic axe lottle named Hallie.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
I don't know you have that realactic version of an
axe lottle? Is is that an ax lottle that lives
in another universe?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well whatever intergalactic.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Means, so you know what they are in this galaxy though,
I guess.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, So this one's named Halley, along with the character
hangtag with the name of the squish and a scannable
code to play an interactive game. So get you one
of them, Alex, Now you can get dout of the
Year award.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
That's right, maybe on the way home tonight.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Also, people are going crazy online. They're posting like, oh
my god, it's so cute. Some people can play in
the mcdee squishbelers have made weird, but I think it.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Makes them cute.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Another redditor was like, no adult wants to walk into
McDonald's and asks for a happy meal. But i put
my ego aside, and I've been doing it for a
while now.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Was that you, Alex?

Speaker 4 (03:20):
That was me?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
That was right? That was me?

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Sorry, Yeah, look, there's no shame in that. Here's the
thing though, these happy meals they're gone for. I never
thought between five and on the high end, ten dollars
for a happy meal you can have it.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I ain't happy about that ten dollars.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, the price has gone up.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Ain't nothing happy about that meal?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
No, No, it must be just because of the toy then,
because I just got a happy meal the other plus,
I've got the app on the phone because the queen
forced me to do that. And with the buck fifty
app thing off, my happy meal was like a dollar
eighty nine or something for the six nuggets for the boy.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
No, man, I got a happy meal for buck eighty nine. Yeah,
pretty amazing.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, you could get I think it was a dollar
fifty it was two fifty off the happy there.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Was a firearm involved, screaming and some shots fired, but yes,
shots fired, Alex Stones covering it, just kidding, please, Oh
my god, I just realized we probably took the editor's going.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Is Alex on something about.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Get him off the get him off the horn with
those idiots.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm glad to have you back. Is it were you
on vacation?

Speaker 4 (04:24):
No, I was in uh Kentucky covering tornadoes?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh yeah, Oh you know what I did see like
a little little live piece.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
It was your phone and you were walking and.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
I do we did that? Yeah? Yeah, So No, I
was in Indiana and in Kentucky, and but now I'm home.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
You were right next door.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
You could Oh my god, I didn't even realize that
You're it was very rainy. Not in Kentucky wasn't rainy,
but on Friday night, last Friday night, it was a
little crazy. And in Indianapolis.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, I don't know how hard you were working or
have you even had downtime?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
That dude, I'm serious, what part you know?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
We were only in Indianapolis for one night and then
we moved down to London, Kentucky, London. I don't I
don't was that near Louisville, but about two and a
half hours south.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's still God, that's like six hours.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's like in the middle of nowhere pretty much. It's
like two and a half hours from anywhere.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I thought maybe you were drying out. I didn't
want to tell Chuck because he asked me on the air.
He's like, where's Alex Ben. I'm like, I think he's
drying out. But I say that on the air. Yeah,
But in all seriousness, man, take us through what happened
in this neighborhood in San Diego, just down the road
from you.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Man.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah. So, I mean, which was incredible though, is that
nobody on the ground was was seriously injured or even
killed in all of this, and not even I mean,
it's just very minor injuries to them. Two people on board.
They're gone now. But it was around three forty seven
this morning. The small private jet Assessin of five point
fifty started in Teeterborough, New Jersey, stopped in Wichita probably

(05:53):
to get fuel, and then was heading to San Diego
Montgomery Gibbs Executive Airport. They were coming in and we've
got the air I have control audio. Now the weather
reporting system was out at the Gibbs Executive Airport, so
the pilot called in asking for the weather outlook that
they were coming into because he knew it was supposed
to be really foggy, really bad. The pilot radioing in, No,

(06:14):
we had any idea on the weather.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I got the Blenty weather, but as.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Here he does, of cold be dramatically different between Ny
and Montgomery.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
So Gillespie being another, he was getting the weather off
of that, but he didn't have it at Montgomery. Gibbs
did that audio from Live ATC and he was told, well,
the nearby airport had fogg down the minimums a minimum
level right down where it would be unsafe to before
it's unsafe to land, and so he was probably on
instrument approach instrument flight rules. He was told the weather's
not good.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
He said, all right, uh, those sounds great, but we'll give.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
It a go. Doesn't sound great, but we'll give it
a go. And then moments later the plane slammed into
a neighborhood into military housing just short of the runway.
So one home is worse offt than the others, but
around a dozen have severe damage. Jet fuel was on
fire rolling down the street on fire into the drains.
It was all over described as looking like a movie set.

(07:08):
The homes were on fire, the plane was burning jet
fuel in the streets. Jessica Schrader, she lives in the
neighborhood Big Boom, wakes her up, looks outside. There were
burning There was the burning airplane, homes, jet fuel, everything,
and it all trapped her in. They couldn't get out.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Fire was up to like right in front of my
front door. So I'm trying to figure out how to
escape with my kids, and I'm just like, let's go,
and I'm calling the police.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
She says.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
There was a dead pilot on her front lawn. So
a neighbor brought a ladder and they could go over
the back fence.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
So we were able to climb the ladder and jump
onto their trampoline to escape, me and my children, and
I was able to throw my two weenie dogs over
as well.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
The fits.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
At least I got the Weeni dogs over right. So
firefighters saying people they were jumping out of windows in
the dozen or so homes and running to get away,
but amazingly, nobody on the ground seriously injured. The two
on the plane. They think only two on board they
were killed, but everybody on the ground they got out
and that nobody was killed. Everybody was asleep. The homes
were full of families and fire commanders.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
In all the fatalities right now look to be that
they're from the plane. We're working with the FAA right
now to find out how many actual people were registered
on that plane.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
So the FAA and the NTSP, they just arrived. They're
beginning to investigate figure out why the plane hit the neighborhood,
if it was the fog or something else, but just
so much damage and the neighborhood everything is burned, everything
is charred. The outline of the plane is there, but
not a way you want to wake up, and very
sad for the two who were on board.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, you had to.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
When you see that footage of the neighborhood and stuff,
that has to probably take you back to what was
just happening, you know, further north, clearly a few months ago, right,
I mean, you know, as far as all the burning
and all of the fires and so on, you fire
like that.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
I mean, it was only about two weeks ago too.
In Seemi Valley, California, we had a plane going to
homes as well that they still don't know on that
one what caused that that had two people on board
and a dog and everybody on or that one died
and everybody got out of the homes there too. But
this has been in southern California in the last probably
two or three weeks, two different planes that have gone
into homes.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I can't even begin to imagine that poor woman with
her kids, the one who said she you know, they
wake up and it's like look outside and see that.
It's like it's like armageddon. You're like, what is going
Like what happened?

Speaker 4 (09:19):
She said, she had no idea what was going on,
you know, in that moment, just everything you've heard of
boom and all the homes are on fire and there's
fire in the street. She said, the street was on
fire because of all the jet fuel. And you know,
later she would know that was a pilot that was
laying there and she just didn't know what had gone on.
And you're just in that moment, you know, from what

(09:39):
she said, could not comprehend what it was, but just
knew that she had to get everybody out.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Did you say at the beginning, this is a military
housing development.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Yeah, so it's a regular neighborhood, but it's owned by
the military. When somebody stationed in San Diego, they could
live there for a year, they could live there for
twenty years, however long they're there. But these are all
military families.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's miraculus. I mean here, we're coming up honestly on
Memori Day weekend, and those who lost their lives serving
the country, and none of those people military families came
out of this skate's that's a one.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, pretty amazing. San Diego is very military heavy, so
that you know, a lot of kudos are going to
because they said to all of those families. You know,
a lot of the military members had emergency training and
they jumped in and began getting people out and doing
medical eight. They only had one transport to the hospital
from that neighborhood. Everybody else was brought to another area
because all of those neighbors took care of each other,

(10:30):
and they all knew how to do the tourniquits and
medical aid and everything else on everybody, and they took
care of themselves. They were their own first responders.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
No question. It's really sad. The two people on board
that died probably went pretty quickly. But uh, just miraculous
nobody on the ground. Unbelievable, I mean unbelievable, an actual miracle.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
If you will.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, really is. Firefighters called it that. They said they
see it as a miracle.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Alex Stone, ABC News out of Los Angeles, talk to
you later, man, Thanks.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
You got it letter guys to see you man.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Man, that is uh, I was just I would crazy.
I would hate to have had military personnel lost going
into this weekend, right, not even in a combat situation.
I am. I am so ridiculously happy that no one
was killed on the ground.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Its great, no doubt. Man.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
I didn't even know Cessna made a jet, did you?
When I hear Sesna, I think of single engine type airplanes,
not not jets. I didn't even know they made jets.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, it's a it's a small aircraft though obviously what
what they were flying there? But as far as yeah,
I didn't I didn't really even think about it as
far as do they make jets or whatever. I know
that it's an airplane or an aircraft brand if you will,
Sessna or type, but I didn't think you know, oh,
I didn't know they make jets.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Are I don't know. I was none the wiser there