But the bird had respiratory complications from inhaling fumes from the fiery crash.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at about 7 p.m. Jan. 23, shortly after the plane took off from nearby Aurora Municipal Airport. <\/p>\n
The twin-engine Smith Aerostar crashed just north of a home at Route 47 and Old Oaks Drive, across from Waubonsee Community College, in what witnesses described as a huge fireball.<\/p>\n
The pilot and passenger, both Florida men, were killed.<\/p>\n
The severely burned hawk was found in the snow at the scene shortly after the crash, and taken to the wildlife rehab center in Barrington. <\/p>\n
“There is not a single feather that’s not burned off of that bird’s body,” Keller said at the time.<\/p>\n
Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n The red-tailed hawk burned in the crash of a small plane in Sugar Grove in January was euthanized Wednesday. The bird was treated by Dawn Keller, founder of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation, who had been optimistic about a full recovery. But the bird had respiratory complications from inhaling fumes from the fiery crash. The crash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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