This morning, I was on my way to work with my business partner. We entered the freeway, only to find the traffic slower than usual.
As we continued, traffic became slower and slower. At first I thought it was a traffic accident, and was trying to gauge the speed of the different lanes to figure out where it had happened.
Police cars came screaming up through the traffic, making us pull aside to let them through. Traffic came to a standstill, and that was when we saw the helicopters.
First there was only one. Then two. In total, there were five helicopters, and traffic moved at a glacial rate. It showed us that something bad was afoot, so I asked my business partner to look up breaking news on her phone.
She suddenly exclaimed that a plane had crashed into a major shopping centre that was on the edge of the freeway, only half an hour ago. It was like a bomb went off, taking out a part of the building and sending debris flying on to the freeway.
We managed to get through before they closed off that section of the freeway. But five people died in that crash, and cars were destroyed in the fire. As we drove past the shopping centre, a cloud of smoke still hung in the air.
My heart goes out to the people who lost their lives, and their families.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-21/five-passenger-plane-crashes-near-melbournes-essendon-airport/8288964