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Plane Crash In Kansas Survived By Two Miracle Teenagers

A plane, rented by two young teenagers, crashed Friday onto a Kansas golf course. The plane was being flown by one of the teenagers, as reported by the AP via Yahoo News, but miraculously both teens survived the plane crash:  A 17-year-old boy was flying the 1966 single-engine Mooney on Friday afternoon when it came down on the 14th hole at the Tallgrass Country Club, Wichita police said. An 18-year-old woman also was aboard. Nikki Womack, who lives near the golf course, said she and her daughter saw the plane fly very low over their neighbor’s home before crashing on the golf course, The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1UHBssc ) reported. “I thought maybe it would flip, but it just hit real softly, pretty much,” Womack said. “It kind of bounced up” as it scraped through a sand trap and came to rest just short of the green. Womack dialed 911 as she ran outside to see if she could help. The boy climbed out of the wreckage first and was bleeding from the top of his head, she said, followed by the woman who was bleeding and had an eye injury. She had both of them lay down before first responders [...]