American Airlines crash witness says plane resembled 'Roman candle‘

American Airlines crash witness says plane resembled 'Roman candle'Source: CNN

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00:00It looked like a fairly, you know, a small end, but normal size passenger jet, and it

00:06looked normal.

00:07It was level.

00:09So I looked back at the road, and then I looked back again just to see if I could maybe see

00:12it land.

00:14And this was three seconds later, and at that point it was banked all the way to the right,

00:17I would say maybe past the right, past 90 degrees.

00:21I could see the underside of it.

00:22It was lit up a very bright yellow, and there was a stream of sparks underneath it.

00:28It looked like a Roman candle, if you ever hold one of those on the 4th of July, but

00:31it was much, much bigger than that.

00:32It was high off the ground.

00:34I didn't see anything beyond that.

00:35I didn't see any helicopter.