COOPER: A tragic story in Georgia, four people onboard a small plane, were killed when the plane crashed on to a busy Atlanta highway. Now, amazingly, no one on the ground was hurt even though this happened right after the height of the morning rush hour. Martin Savidge reports.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Bleep) a plane just crashed in front of us.</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The crash of the single engine plane on the busy i-25 north of Atlanta came just as rush hour was ending. Hundreds of people witnessed its horror. The just fueled plane slammed into a cement median and burst into plane, sending big black smoke into the air. All four people on board were killed. The piper 32 had kicked off moments before from DeKalb peach tree county airport about a mile away. Witnesses say it showed signs of trouble while still in the air.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The first thing I notices was the plane flying extremely low, almost hitting the red light to come on to 285. And as I turned to get on to 285, it was just a large plume of black smoke.</s>SAVIDGE: Drivers swerved and break to avoid the disaster. Gerald Smith's semi was one of two vehicles hit by debris.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I would have stayed on the gas, I would have hit it head on and it probably would have killed me.</s>SAVIDGE: And fortunately no one on the ground was hurt.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is quite remarkable, considering the fact 285 around that time of the morning, that it was not any more tragic than what it was.
Four People Killed In Plane Crash In Atlanta