On Wednesday, October 6th, a Naperville couple crashed their single engine plane into the well known exercise facility, XSport Fitness. The pilot Lloyd McKee, and his wife Maureen McKee, were flying to Pittsburgh when this accident occurred.
The couple resides in the subdivision Aero Estates, near the private airstrip south of XSport. When the accident occurred, both were pinned in the plane and required extrication. The McKee’s are being treated at Edward hospital and th
eir injuries are not life threatening.
The small Piper 32 crashed into the upper southwest corner of XSport Fitness. The single-engine plane crashed into the building’s top-level basketball court, which was empty at the time. When the accident occurred there were about 280 people inside. Everyone was evacuated and nobody in the building was injured.
Police Cmdr. Mike Anders said that the 911 call reporting the accident came in at 12:04 p.m. Naperville resident Ron Reimer, a member at XSport, was exercising as the plane hit. He said it sounded and felt like an earthquake, shaking the building. Reimer said he lives near Aero Estates, and he has seen planes fly in low over the fitness center several times.
The plane punched a hole through the top of the fitness center, and sections of the plane could be seen jutting out of the west side of 
the building. Now, the Federal Aviation Administration has taken over the investigation, but FAA officials have had no comment so far.
XSport Fitness remains closed until Naperville city engineers give the all-clear to open it, and the plane will remain where it is until insurance companies representing both the pilot and the fitness center can be called in.
Meghana Sharma, Neuqua Media Editor
