Graham shared details on the crash, saying that as the plane, which is a general aviation flight, attempted to take off from the runway, it exited the paved surface and struck the perimeter fence of the airport. Two people were transported to a hospital with minor injuries, local officials said. Kent is shaken up and not giving interviews for now, Norton said. James Kent, the owner of the MD-87, was on board the flight, according to Kent’s aviation counsel and spokesperson, David Norton. “Any time you have a plane that doesn’t make a landing on a runway like it should, we’re always expecting the worst but hoping for the best, and today we absolutely, positively got the best outcome we can hope for on this,” Gibson said. The passengers “were stunned, they were very, very stunned,” Tim Gibson, Waller-Harris Emergency Services district director, told reporters. The NTSB investigation team “will be on site for about a week or two weeks gathering evidence of this accident, perishable evidence, and that is all we will be doing at this time,” Graham said. The investigation into the crash could take between 12 and 18 months, said Michael Graham, board member with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The emergency slides deployed, and passengers were able to slide down to safety. Miraculously, there were no major injuries among the crew and passengers. “It was already on fire before we got out of it!” “Things were flying around and when it finally came to a stop, they just said ‘Get out, get out’ because we thought it was going to explode,” the man said. “Going down the runway, and it just all the sudden they slammed on the brakes,” the passenger, who didn’t want to be named, told KHOU.