A 17-year-old is in critical condition after surviving the single-engine plane crash that killed his parents, and was recorded escaping from the wreckage in haunting footage of the aftermath.
Peyton Boaz is suffering from smoke inhalation and some third-degree burns after the aircraft he was flying on Sunday night hit a tree and then flipped. An NTSB investigator said the pilot reported that his landing gear did not deploy and, later, that he was running out of fuel.
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Greg and Julie Boaz, then teen’s father and step mother, were killed when their Cessna 210 went down outside of Detroit’s Coleman A. Young International Airport. The trio were traveling from Houston to see Greg’s daughter play in the USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championship.
Peyton, who is now in the hospital with his mother, was able to escape from the plane thanks to two heroic witnesses.
After running to the burning aircraft, Larry Whitfield said he tried to use a stick to help the boy he heard “hollering and screaming” inside escape. When that didn’t work, witness Cordell Owens “got an ax,” which freed the teen from the wreckage.
Watch the harrowing footage (above) to see Peyton make his escape.
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