WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) - Today marks 60 years since an Air Force plane crashed into a northeast Wichita neighborhood, killing all seven crew members and 23 people on the ground. KSN spoke with one Wichitan who lost two family members in the Piatt plane crash. Victor Daniels lost his father and grandmother after her house was destroyed in the flames. The KC-135 had just taken off from McConnell Air Force Base and could not get enough lift to stay in the air when it crashed into the residential neighborhood near 20th and Piatt. Daniels was a 10-year-old at home watching cartoons on a Saturday morning when he heard the explosion. He hopped on his bicycle and headed to his grandma's house several blocks away, but emergency crews held him back. "Really didn't realize what was going on 'cause, like I said, got on my bicycle and started back home and didn't really realize until later that evening that my grandmother's home had been destroyed," he said. "People in the neighborhood started coming back that way once the police and fire department started pushing them back, and they said a plane had crashed." Photo showing some of the aftermath of the Jan. 16, 1965 KC-135 disaster in north Wichita. (USAF 22nd Air Refueling Wing History Office) Photo showing some of the aftermath of the Jan. 16, 1965 KC-135 disaster in north Wichita. (USAF 22nd Air Refueling Wing History Office) Piatt plane crash (Courtesy: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum) Daniels says the smell of burning jet fuel is something that stays with him, as well as seeing fire roll down the street that day. "I can remember people saying there was fire, and I got a couple of glimpses of fire rolling down the street from the jet fuel," he said. Daniels later learned his grandmother's house was destroyed, and he had lost both his father and grandmother. The area is now a memorial park and a granite monument was installed back in 2007. One man who worked on a documentary film about the crash says interviews with victims show why this needs to be remembered. "This story needs to be told because this, part of this, they still carry the pain. The trauma. They still carry the trauma from that event, you know," said historian and filmmaker Riccardo Haris. Daniels says he had many friends who lived in the area. Their lives also changed forever by that day.