The FAA and NTSB officials continue to assess the wreckage and investigate the cause of the crash of a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air C90 crashed shortly after taking off from Alliance Airport Sunday afternoon.

The airport is located about ten miles northeast of the site of the crash. People working at businesses near the 12000 block of Saginaw Boulevard remain shaken by what they heard and saw.

Shaquana Hodges, a massage therapist located feet away from the site of the crash, was with a client when she heard the familiar hum of an airplane.

“You heard like a ‘phew’, like the plane kind of flying over, but sound like it was landing,” Hodges said.

Bob Ashbrook was watching TV around 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

“I could hear propellers, so I knew it was an engine, an aircraft,” Ashbrook recalled

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