Tuesday's crash of a plane into a North Myrtle Beach RV park is déjà vu for one area couple. Less than a year ago, a plane bound for Grand Strand Airport crashed into a home at Creekside Mobile Home Park. Robert Werkheiser and his girlfriend Sandy Freeman were inside that mobile home.
Werkheiser says he feels for the victims' families.
"I know exactly what they're going through and it's terrible," he says.
Last July, he was in his mobile home's bathroom when a plane smashed through the side of it.
"I just heard that a rumble, and I woke up in a bath tub with a door on top of me, because the door apparently flew off the hinges and knocked me down."
Tuesday afternoon's crash brings back a lot of memories. Freeman is still too distraught to talk on camera. Robert says he still sees several doctors a week for back pain, has scars from his burns, and suffers from survivor's guilt and post traumatic stress every day.
The fact that another crash has happened again and so soon makes him anxious.
"What are the odds of this happening?"
Above all, he says he hopes the community will reach out to help the victims' families.
"You worked for your whole life, and then all of a sudden it's gone. In the blink of an eye," Werkheiser says. "I'll be gosh darned if thats going to happen to this family, because I think as a person and as all of us we should just help out. That's just the way I feel."
Dub Digital Recording, a local record company run by a friend of Werkheiser is raising money to help Werkheiser's family and the victims of Tuesday's crash.
