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The postman had just delivered a Korean-language newspaper to 4416 Cather Ave. when he saw a plane plunging toward him.
“Everything was in slow motion,” said Bill Dusting, a veteran letter-carrier. “My first thought was, ‘Well, this is going to be quick and painless.’”
It was neither. On that morning, 10 years ago today, Dusting ran to safety but the Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet crashed, killing four people inside 4416 Cather Ave. Flaming wreckage shredded that house and ripped through its neighbor, burning both homes to the ground.
The accident destroyed a South Korean immigrant’s family the dead were Don Yoon’s wife, their two daughters, and his mother-in-law and left a scar on this corner of San Diego’s University City.