TN Lawyer Helps Rescue Pilot
A Chattanooga, Tenn., lawyer was among the rescuers who helped pull survivors from a small plane that crashed in a shopping center parking lot Wednesday.
The plane had crashed as it approached the runway at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport. The pilot and three passengers were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Lawyer Robin Flores said he was dining with his wife at the Longhorn Steakhouse when he saw a spinning vehicle outside that had been hit by the plane, the Chattanoogan.com reports. He ran out to the crashed plane and saw a man with a “big gaping wound” on his head lying inside. Flores helped the man, later identified as the pilot, out of the plane.
Flores told CNN in a broadcast interview that he feared the plane would break into flames. “My first thought was fire,” he said. “I wouldn’t wish death by fire on anybody.”
He said his help in the rescue “didn’t seem like a big thing to do.”
Flores’ biography describes him as a 10-year police veteran and 17-year military veteran.
