Plane crash on I-75: 2 years later, neighbors say the sound of planes still hits different

All day long, the growl of planes fills the sky over the Marbella Lakes neighborhood.

Planes coming in. Planes heading out of Naples Airport.

It’s the kind of background noise you expect when you live just miles away. But since February 9, 2024, neighbors here say the sound hits differently.

“Every time I hear something, I’m like this," Dee Guller said ducking, "If I’m on the 75 or on the road, I literally duck in my car and like, is it going to crash on my head?”

Guler saw the smoke first that day, before she knew what was happening.

“This is the first video that I shot as I was approaching home,” she said.

Black clouds were rising behind the neighborhood. Her Ring camera captured the sound of the crash, and one minute and 15 seconds later, the explosion.

“Kudos to the pilots. They literally saved our lives. We are right here,” Guler said.

The plane went down just beyond the sound barrier that backs up to the homes. The planes' wing split the wall, and debris scattered into nearby backyards.

“It was just like, kind of like parts of, like, one of the wings. They were just, like, broken, like, small pieces,” said Ariz Kapadia.

Kapadia was just 11 years old when the crash happened. He wasn’t home at the time, but he remembers returning to a yard filled with plane debris and investigators searching the area.

“They were just like searching them out for any, like, extra plane pieces and stuff,” he said.

Unlike many of the adults who live nearby, Kapadia says he doesn’t remember feeling scared. And when it comes to flying, he says he isn’t afraid.

“Kids are fearless,” Guler said.

For her, fear lingered long after the debris was cleared. Guler postponed multiple trips in the months following the crash.

Two years later, she says it’s getting easier.

She no longer holds her breath every time a plane passes overhead, but she says she’ll never hear that sound the same way again.