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[email protected] It was an ordinary evening in the west side neighborhood of Chehalis moments before a plane fell out of the sky Tuesday. Tyrell Daily was driving on Interstate 5. Devin Rowland was at home browsing the Internet. Sarah Dailey was walking to her car in the Walmart parking lot. Victoria Romero was in her living room without her glasses on, lying on the couch with her son watching a movie. It was a warm evening and the curtains on Pete Caster /
[email protected] the window above her were pulled back, Tom Little, an air safety investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board Western Paciic Region, takes a photo of debris from Tuesday evening's letting the last few hours of sun into the plane crash at Chehalis Collision Center on NW Maryland Avenue in Chehalis on Wednesday morning. room when something — maybe a bird, she thought — caught her eye. “I saw something go down really fast, I CORONER: Investigator Says ‘It Centralia Airport narrowly missed In- The pilot, who was the sole occupant terstate 5 during its violent descent that was thinking, ‘Was that a plane? Naw, it Could Have Been A Lot Worse’; on the plane, died in the crash.