Residents of Brookhaven were alarmed by a loud boom around 12:22 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, when a small plane crashed into the front yard of a home at the corner of Clairmont Road and 9th Street.

Whitney Beiner, who lives one house away from where the crash occurred, said she and her husband heard it loud and clear. Emergency vehicles were quick to respond.

“We heard the transformer explode, and then we heard the guy hollering for help. And at that point I was like, ‘Ryan, we have to do something,'” Beiner said. “I was about to [call 911], but we heard all the sirens coming.”

On Saturday afternoon, Georgia Power was making repairs, and a towing company from Griffin, GA, was on the scene removing pieces of the plane. The three passengers who sustained non-life-threatening injuries were t

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