Dispatchers started receiving calls around 4:20 on Sunday March 17th about a plane flying over the South Bend Regional Airport that looked like it was having mechanical problems.

DISPATCHER: "South Bend 911."
CALLER: "Yeah, I'm sitting here by the airport, I was on the bypass, I seen a plane start to come in for a landing."
DISPATCHER: "Yes."
CALLER: "His front wheel come down the back wheel didn't come down he pulled back up."
DISPATCHER: "Yes they are already on the way out there Sir.

DISPATCHER: "911."
CALLER: "A plane just landed on Ryer Street by the airport."
DISPATCHER: "On Ryer? (TALKING TO SOMEONE ELSE) They are on Ryer Street."
CALLER: "On Ryer, Ryer by the...
DISPATCHER: "Ok."
CALLER: "By the airport."
DISPATCHER: "Ok, we are on our way out there." 

The aircraft, a Beechcraft Premier One actually crashed on Iowa Street.

It clipped the top of one house, heavily damaged a second, and finally came to rest inside a third.

DISPATCHER: "South Bend 911."
CALLER: "There's like an explosion."
DISPATCHER: "Where at?"
CALLER: "On Iowa."
DISPATCHER: "Ok, did you see what it was?"
CALLER: "Yeah, the fire department just came."

DISPATCHER: "South Bend 911."
CALLER: "Yeah, we've got a, I think the fire department is coming already, Iowa Street- house blew up."
DISPATCHER: "A house..."
CALLER: "Everything is gone."
DISPATCHER: "What do you mean it blew up?"
CALLER: "It blew up- just like that. The whole thing is gone except for the front door- the front, front wall, the whole back of it blew up. The whole thing is gone!"

Two people aboard the plane died and the two other passengers were severely injured.

A fifth person was injured on the ground and hospitalized for several days.