Just hours after being arrested and released on bail for allegedly assaulting his wife, a Utah man stole a plane and crashed it into his own home where his wife was staying, police said. The man, 47-year-old Duane Youd, did not survive the crash Monday, officials stated. Flames engulfed the house in the city of Payson after the crash and ensuing fire at 2:30 a.m.
His partner and a child, who were in the home at the time of the attack, managed to escape despite the front part the two-storey house being engulfed in flames, Police Sergeant Noemi Sandoval said.
“There were two individuals in the home at the time that the plane went in,” Sandoval said. “They
were able to get out of the home without any injuries. Obviously, they were very shook up over what had happened but they weren’t physically injured.”
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Before stealing the plane, Youd called his biological children who were staying in the home where he later crashed and told them to “go stay at their mother’s house” that night, which they did, police said.
Youd was an experienced pilot who had access to the twin engine Cessna 525 jet because he flew for the company that owned it, authorities said. He was the only one in the aircraft when it crashed and killed him
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