LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

A man who lived just steps from the UPS plane crash site in Kentucky says he’s lucky to be alive, even as he mourns friends who didn’t make it.

Robert Sanders has worked as a maintenance man at Grade A Auto Parts and Recycling for 12 years. He also lived in his RV on the property, which became part of the crash site on Tuesday morning.

“I started hearing this real loud like rumbling, roaring sound, and I stepped outside the bay door there and looked, and the only thing I could see was black smoke, flames, and fireballs,” Sanders said.

He told sister station WLKY he had just been inside his RV minutes before the plane came down.

“I had just been in my RV like two minutes earlier, and I came down there to building 12,” he said.

Moments later, a plane filled with jet f

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