COURTESY A SMALL PLANE that left Tyler Pounds Regional Airport on Sunday afternoon crashed into the roof of a home in Gordonville, about 85 miles north of Dallas, and then landed in a yard.

(UPDATED March 30, 2015 at 4:22 pm CT) — (KYTX) – A friend of the pilot is posting on Facebook that Bob Gentry and three others on board survived the plane crash, and are expected to recover from their injuries.

Bob’s teenage daughter suffered scratches, and her boyfriend was not injured in the crash. Bob is hospitalized with broken ankles and wrists.

Bob’s girlfriend, Karen Christian, suffered a leg injury and was taken to a Plano hospital.

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(UPDATED March 30, 2015 at 10:56 am CT) — GORDONVILLE, Texas (KYTX) – The pilot of a small plane that crashed Sunday in Grayson County has been identified as Robert Gentry of Tyler.

The plane crashed into a house in Gordonville sending all four passengers to the hospital, two were seriously injured.

It happened just after 4 p.m. a few miles from the Cedar Mills Airport, where the plane had taken off from.

FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the plane was a Beechcraft B35 aircraft.

The pilot has been identified as Robert Gentry, and a passenger as 51-year-old Karen Christian.

The family, whose backyard became the scene of a plane crash, said they were enjoying their Sunday when the incident happened.

What they did next helped save the lives of the four people on board.

“I ran around the side of the house I thought the guy was dead hanging out the window of the plane.”

Trooper Mark Tackett said the engine and propeller came off the plane, which struck an unoccupied home before the plane landed in a backyard.

“I looked out the window as it hit right there in my backyard,” Rhonda Brogdon said. “I could see the wing hit the ground.”

Brogdon and her family jumped into action. Pulling Christian and two teenagers from the plane.

“I jumped on the plane and helped the lady out of the plane,” Belinda Burris said. “Her legs were broken and she was pretty beat up and my mom came and helped me get her out of there.”

John Bratron, a family member of the homeowner’s said he wasn’t just worried about injures from the crash, the house the plane hit, had caught fire and the flames were creeping closer to Gentry.

“I had to get them out of it because there was fuel all over the plane,” he said.

After everyone was safely outside of the plane, Braton and his family set their sights on the fire.

“I kicked in the front door went in and started spraying water on the fire,” Braton said.

Christian was flown to the Medical Center of Plano with serious injures. Gentry was also taken to a nearby hospital with serious injures. The two teenagers had only minor injures.

Burris says without the help of her family things might not have ended the same.

“It wasn’t a second guess for them,” Burris said. “They just stepped in and made sure that they could do everything they could do, and I just wish that you know if I was ever in an accident that people would be like that for me.”