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Sharonville plane crash investigation continues
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Niels Harpsoe, pilot
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David Woeste, student pilot
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Edward Hitchins, pilot
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Investigators are looking at radar records from Friday and are going over witness reports, looking for clues as to why two small planes collided in mid-air and crashed in Sharonville on Friday.
They're also listening to nearly an hour's worth of calls that came into 911.
One woman told a dispatcher, "We just saw two planes, some of it's still falling, just hit in the air, little planes."
Another person said, "We saw it twisting and squirming and all the sudden, bang, it went to the ground."
Still another caller talked to an operator as he ran up to the wreckage, and said, "There are no survivors. I'm about 20 feet from it. There are bits and pieces everywhere."
Investigators hope the eyewitness accounts will help them figure out how the Cessna and the Beechcraft Bonanza planes came together in the air.
Three men, Niels Harpsoe of West Chester, David Woeste of Anderson Township, and Edward "Teddy" Hitchens of Symmes Township, were killed in the mid-air crash.
A scholarship fund has been set up in the name of one of the victims.
Donations to the "Ted Hitchens Memorial Scholarship Fund" can be made at any Fifth-Third bank.
The scholarship fund is in honor of Hitchens' love of music and performing.
