MUNSTER | Josh Wright was taking out the garbage at 7:20 p.m. Friday at the Nursing Care Center at Hartsfield Village when he heard the roar of an airplane just overhead.

"When that plane flew over it was only 35 or 40 feet above me," the 19-year-old said. "Then the wings wobbled and it disappeared."

The Highland resident found himself waiting for a boom or fireball, but that never happened. He finished taking out the trash.

Just another low takeoff from the nearby Lansing Municipal Airport, Wright thought.

When he arrived home from work and flipped on the Internet to look at nwi.com, there was the headline: "Two killed in Munster small-plane crash."

"It was like, don't even tell me that was the plane I saw," Wright said. "That just freaked me out."

The wreckage of the twin-engine Beechcraft Baron was removed from the crash site on Calumet Avenue just east of the Fitness Pointe parking lot early Saturday morning and taken to Lansing Municipal Airport. National Transportation Safety Board investigators are inspecting the wreckage and the crash site.

The Beechcraft was based at the Lansing airport, according to Bob Malkas, Lansing Municipal Airport manager. It was registered to SL Air International, of Hinsdale, Ill., according to Federal Aviation Administration records.

The Lake County Fire Association HazMat Team continued to monitor cleanup of aircraft fuel near the crash site Saturday. Containment and absorbent booms were placed in a nearby lake on the east side of Calumet Avenue, where aircraft fuel had flowed in from a nearby storm sewer.