There are several families in our area and nearby who have been impacted directly by Wednesday night's deadly plane crash in at the Creekside Mobile Home Park in North Myrtle Beach.

NewsChannel 15 spoke with two families, one who nearly suffered a loss and one who did.

The smoke has cleared. The plane has been hauled away. The investigators have wrapped up their surveys. Now, the plane crash scene has almost turned into a venue for sightseers. Strangers were walking through the accident scene, some driving by, trying to catch a glimpse of the aftermath, and some folks could even be seen snapping photos.

But not all come just to see the devastation. The Bryant family lives right behind the accident scene and say they dodged a bullet, or in this case, a plane might be more accurate.

The Sanders family of North Carolina came to see where their great-niece, Mallory Fields, was killed. Mallory, 4, was a passenger on board the plane with her grandparents, Danny and Raychell Carroll.

Reverend Darren Sanders and his wife Renee spent some time at the crash scene on Friday. The couple found a piece of the plane that carried little Mallory to take home with them.

"She used to come to Bible school," said Reverend Sanders of Mallory, "and she just had all this - she was full of charisma and personality."

Katie Bryant's son Ronnie was at the house where the plane crashed when it happened. She says he was outside on the patio.

"When the impact hit, he said he took his arm up like this and when it blew up he fell. He said then he jumped up, and he started, he started running," said Katie.

She says after hearing the impact of the plane next door she ran out to find her son.

"I started rolling up his sleeves and he had a big old burn on the back of his arm with his skin hanging and his whole leg, all the way down to his ankles where he had shorts and socks, and then this leg."

Katie tells NewsChannel 15 that Ronnie suffered second and third degree burns, but considering all that happened that night, things could have been worse.

The Sanders family happened to be on the Grand Strand the night of the crash and were on their way back from dinner.

"Ambulances and fire trucks were screaming down the road, and we thought to ourselves, 'wow, sounds like something serious,'" recalled Reverend Sanders. "Obviously we didn't know at that point in time what was going on."

The Sanders soon began getting phone calls about the 54-year-old pilot.

"We got a phone call from other pastor friends of mine who didn't know we were related to the little girl and said, 'Danny Carroll.' I said, 'It was Danny?' Because I work with him all the time at (his) funeral home," said Reverend Sanders. "I was shocked enough about him, but to learn that Mallory was with them, it was just a, just a tragedy that it happened."

The Sanders say the Carrolls made the flights from North Carolina to the Grand Strand quite often, enjoying spending time with their granddaughter Mallory.

"She loved life, loved to play, loved to sing," remembered Renee Sanders about her young great-niece. "It's tragic that it had to end so early... a beautiful life and she had to go so early, of course the grandparents also. But, she will be missed. Her family is devastated. Her parents are just crushed."

Mallory leaves behind both her parents and a one-and-a-half-year-old brother.