ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>CHARLES ZEWE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Like lots of people, we watched the Payne Stewart story develop almost incredulous that such a thing could happen. It quickly became apparent that something was terribly wrong with his plane. And we in the Dallas bureau watched as the plane arced it's way over the southeastern states and then headed over the Midwest. And we started to mobilize to follow that plane. After several hours, it ran out of fuel and crashed in South Dakota.</s>LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: CNN has confirmed through Leader Enterprises that Payne Stewart, as we mentioned earlier, who was co- owner of that Learjet that crashed near Aberdeen, South Dakota, was indeed abroad the plane.</s>KEN DUNN, EYEWITNESS: It just started flipping, flopping around, summersaults, upside down, every which way. The sun was shining on it, we could see it plain as day silver, and then all of a sudden down it went, about 12 seconds and it hit the ground.</s>ZEWE: When we got to the scene in South Dakota, I walked up to what appeared to be a hole in the middle of a big cow pasture, a very small hole. And I asked somebody, well, where's the plane crash? And they said, it's right there. And I was standing no more than 15, 20 feet from the impact crater. It was an awesome sight in terms of the level of destruction. The plane was reduced to little, just little pieces of metal and debris. It was impossible to recognize it as an aircraft.
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