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“Daddy, did I save my sister?" was one of the first things Trey
Howard asked his father after he woke up following emergency
brain surgery, Andre Howard Jr. said. He had gone out for donuts
with three of his kids when the plane crashed Friday night, he
said.
“It sounded like a missile was firing bullets, metal at my car,
everyone else’s car,” Andre Howard told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.
Howard said he immediately backed up his car while his son
covered his sister and told her, “Get down!” Trey grabbed his
sister and Howard heard the glass shatter, he said.
”I turn around — there’s a piece of metal sticking out of my
son’s head from the plane," Howard said.
Andre Howard said he used socks and another man provided his
shirt in an attempt to stop the bleeding on the boy's head. A
police officer rushed them to the hospital. Doctors warned the
family he might not survive his injuries, but he has improved
every day.
He woke from surgery and almost immediately asked about his
sister — after his father assured him that he hadn't missed the
Super Bowl game between his favorite team, the Philadelphia
Eagles, and the Kansas City Chiefs, Howard said.
The crash Friday evening killed all six people on the Learjet 55
air ambulance, including a girl who had been receiving medical
treatment at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia hospital. Steven
Dreuitt, 37, of Philadelphia, who was found inside a vehicle
that was traveling near the crash, was also killed, while 24
other people on the ground were injured. City police announced
Wednesday that Dreuitt's remains had been identified by the
city’s Medical Examiner’s Office.
Officials have repeatedly said the number of casualties may
change as the investigation continues.
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