To the east, two extended traditional neighborhoods have been totally wiped out and dozens of old plane trees uprooted overnight.

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The plane hit a stand of pine trees across the street from where Yelinek was working, he said.

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The members of the 75th Ranger Regiment -- a U.S. special operations force -- were training at Joint Base Lewis-McChord when they jumped from a plane and got entangled in towering evergreen trees that canvass the sprawling military installation between Tacoma and Olympia.

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"A crash investigation will be carried out but we have found some debris at the side of the lake and the plane is completely submerged so it appears that the aircraft clipped the trees before ditching into the lake, " said Mr Barritt.

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For an hour the kob course under the plane, almost like a river, flowing across the broken soil and around the trees.

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