CNN reported the accident. Yesterday a private plane carrying 20 passengers came off the runway at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and caught fire. Several people were taken to the hospital, including the pilot and co-pilot. The Bombardier Canadian Challenger CL-600 skidded off the runway, hit two vehicles and crashed into a warehouse across the street. (See: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/04/plane.crash.ap/index.html). News reports focused on the heroic efforts of Dominican Claudio Gomez, 32, who pulled four people from the smoking wreckage, including one of the pilots. According to El Caribe, Gomez as working at the warehouse when he felt and heard the big crash. His first instinct was to run, but he heard a cry for help and turned and ran towards the burning plane. Gomez said that he could not run faster because of the snow on the ground. He pulled one woman out of a snow bank next to the plane by her hair and took her some 50 feet away to safety. Then he went back and took two men out of the wreckage. He went back twice to look for victims, and then saw a uniformed man trying to crawl away on the ground, which was covered in gasoline. It was the co-pilot, whose leg was broken. Gomez said that he thought that the co-pilot must have broken it jumping from the plane. The co-pilot was Hispanic and told him in Spanish to “Go away!” but Claudio persevered and carried him to safety. Soon afterwards the fire trucks arrived and doused the plane, avoiding an explosion. The major TV network stations in the New York-New Jersey area highlighted Gomez’s bravery. He told El Caribe reporters that in the midst of all the excitement he had forgotten about his wife, who also works in the warehouse, and even about his children. When he kissed his wife, he asked her for forgiveness for what he did. See: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/plane.crash.victims.ap/index.html