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Article: 'I can't hear Josh. I can't hear Josh': Parents mourn son killed at Midway -- 'We never heard him again'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 21, 2005
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Blood running down his face, Leroy Woods looked up at the
Southwest Airlines jetliner on top of his brand-new car -- his wife
and three boys pinned inside.
Locking eyes with the two pilots, Woods hollered at them with all
that he had: "Your plane is on top of my kids. . . . Get your plane
off my kids. Now."
Side-by-side on wooden chairs Tuesday, Woods and his wife, Lisa,
recounted details of their life's greatest tragedy -- the death of
their 6-year-old boy Joshua in the Dec. 8 crash at Midway Airport.
The evening had started with a long ride from their tiny house in
Leroy, Ind., -- more than four hours in traffic through the season's
biggest snowstorm. The family was on the way to see ...