Ken and Carol Marcoux like to watch planes land and take off at Boulder Municipal Airport, and Wednesday morning was no different for the Gunbarrel couple.

As they pulled their Toyota Prius over to the side of Independence Road to catch a tow plane and glider take to a beautiful blue sky, they spotted a small plane coming in from the east.




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To the couple's horror, the plane -- whose pilot was later identified as Joe Curtis, 67, of Commerce City -- was pointed right at their car and approaching at what Marcoux estimated was 100 mph. Carol Marcoux screamed "Ken!" and her husband stepped on the gas, moving the Prius forward just enough to spare them a potentially fatal hit. Carol Marcoux said she heard "a big sound of glass breaking" as the right wingtip of the plane slammed into the back of the car -- shattering the rear passenger window and denting the rear quarter panel -- just inches behind her head. "It's amazing," Carol Marcoux said. "I'm very grateful that I wasn't decapitated."

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