Out of gas

This medical transport plane crashed three houses north of ours, two days ago.  Not only is the sight of that splintered plane unnerving, but so are the trees that were sheared off on the descent.  Two passengers and the pilot died.  A medic and the co-pilot survived.  The plane ran out of gas just ten minutes from the airport.  Most likely the pilot (who had 40 years of flight experience and was an instructor) desperately searched for a place to put down that wasn't in someone's living room -- like ours -- and chose to land in the woods.  Thank you, sir, and R.I.P.