her husband , owns a few antique aircraft . But the familiar sound of a plane overhead this time was menacing . Bischoff said she was eating dinner with her husband and children when she heard a loud screeching . `` It shook our house , and the next thing you knew , there was a large boom , '' she said . The plane also hit the house 's hangar , which sheltered two planes , Bischoff said . Explosions erupted , and they watched as flames shot into the air . Bischoff 's husband , Roy , ran out with other neighbors to check on the couple living in the crushed house , she said . The couple was out to dinner , she said . Neighbors saved the three Labrador retrievers inside , Roy Bischoff said . But he wished he could have saved the two people aboard the plane , he said . `` There was almost nothing , there was no recognizable part of an airplane around , '' he said . The crash could have been even worse , Deah Bischoff said . Of the houses close by , the neighbor 's home was
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Residents of a Belleville , Illinois , neighborhood were still shaken Monday after a small plane crashed the day before , killing two aboard and destroying a house . `` I think everybody is still in shock , '' said Deah Bischoff , who lives near the site of the crash . `` I think we 're all just walking around and looking and trying to absorb what happened . '' The single-engine plane crashed about 6:30 p.m. Sunday , according to the Federal Aviation Administration . No one on the ground was hurt , the FAA said . The National Transportation Safety Board had no comment on its investigation into the crash before a news conference Monday afternoon . The wreckage site is adjacent to an airstrip , but the pilot was heading for St. Louis Downtown Airport , about six miles away , according to the FAA . Residents near the airstrip are accustomed to planes in the neighborhood . Many can park their private planes in hangars adjacent to their homes . They 're like garages for cars , except they 're hangars for planes , said Bischoff , who , along with