UPDATE: Via ARLnow, check out some video recently posted to YouTube of the actual crash.

It was about 9:45 this morning when Alert DC let the city know that eight vintage bi-planes were set to fly into National Airport at some point between 10 and 10:30 a.m. Little did we know at the time that Washington Post reporter Ashley Halsey III was a passenger on one of them, and that the plane would soon crash.

Only two people were aboard the plane, the pilot and Halsey, when it touched down on a runway and then pitched forward and rolled over. Neither the pilot nor the reporter were injured in the crash. We know this courtesy Halsey himself, who has already recovered from the incident enough to report what happened. That’s some stone cold shit right there.

Halsey further reports that all commercial airplanes are being moved to a different runway following the crash.

The vintage biplanes were reportedly in town to mark the premiere of Legends of Flight, a 3-D IMAX film about aviation history. The film opens June 9 at the National Air and Space Museum.

Ed. note: The original version of this story misidentified Halsey’s gender. It’s since been corrected.