European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday september 10,1994 it was a nose dive straight �. I by the new York times Richard Trenary. Was visiting his next door neigh Bor in Hopewell township pa., on thursday night when he heard an Odd sound looked up and saw us air flight 427 plunge toward the ground. His account of the crash is Likely to be among the Many collected by investigators. Safety experts Cau Tion however against drawing conclusions about what went wrong based on such accounts noting that witnesses without aviation experience can mistake Normal operations for unusual ones. The. Expert re construction of events leading to a crash normally takes months. Trenary a 61-year-old retired truck Driver live minutes from Pittsburgh International Airport and was among the closest of the witnesses to the crash. Here is his description of it As seen from the Home of his neighbor Gerald Taylor. My neighbor and i were sitting in his Yard when we heard this noise and it did t really sound like a Jet. I thought it was a Small plane because the engines were making a popping sound like a muffled backfire Over and Over. It was like a Small Puffin backfire like he was trying to restart his engine. There were Little puffs of smoke coming out of the left engine. It was t like it was on fire. We ran out on his porch and it was right there losing Altitude. It went maybe 1,000 Yards past us. It was ii t a diving crash it was a nose dive straight Down a Gigantic Ball of fire. I would say it was 10 time the size of