LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mary Ballenger sits in her van – the same van she drove to see her husband at work on Grade Lane on Nov. 4 when she said the UPS cargo plane – came toward them.

“I mean, I can feel my body jumping,” she recalled. “It’s like that even for my kids – [It’s] a constant reminder of we almost died in here.”

Ballenger felt instant jitters and nervousness when hearing a plane flying overhead.

“Seeing airplanes – hearing them. Then hearing them and not seeing them makes it even worse,” she described.

She and her granddaughter went to the hospital with injuries. A footprint was left burned into the carpet from the van that day.

Ballenger said she and her family have been struggling to sleep and process the trauma from the crash. Her husband, the sole provider of her family, ha

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