Many saw this on the news just now. And I'm getting calls with concerns about our saftey. Want to let all my friends and family know that Aarav and I are completely fine.. GOD and this CAR truly saved us today. Not a scratch on us. No one believed me when I called them to let them know a plane crashed into me. Tesla, people thought It was a prank call. Wife laughed at me at first.. Jokes aside, this was a serious matter, I saw my life flash in that minute. A second is all it takes.
According to local TV station KPRC, the plane was on a
training mission for the Drug Enforcement Agency when it developed a mechanical
problem and was forced to make an emergency landing. The pilot was unable to
get back to the airport and chose to land the plane on nearby
“The plane had some mechanical difficulties, and they had to do an emergency landing,” Wendell Campbell, a DEA Houston Division special agent, told Business Insider. The Cessna was heavily damaged, with the tail section nearly severed from the rest of the airplane. Kurup’s white Tesla Model X suffered damage to the left front ahead of the driver’s door. Both falcon-wing doors continued to operate normally after the crash. After primadanna’s tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted his own tweet, which said, “Wow, glad they’re ok!”
“Imagine you’re just driving down
Dhuha Bazzaz, who lives near the crash site, told the Chronicle her neighbors thought the sound of the crash was like a lightning strike. “It’s a horrible thing. It landed during school time, the are kids around,” Bazzaz said. “People are out of their home at that time. It’s rush-hour.” The Cessna hit a few other cars when it crash landed and downed some power lines, knocking out electricity to the neighborhood. Crews quickly restored power to the area. There were no injuries reported to anyone other than one passenger aboard the stricken airplane.