6 Killed In Southern California Plane Crash—Second Deadly Crash In A Week

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Riverside County police and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating.

All six passengers aboard a business jet died after the plane crashed in Southern California early Saturday morning, according to local officials, the second deadly crash in the area in less than a week.A Cessna C550 jet crashed near the French Valley Airport in Murrieta, California, around 4:15 a.m. on Saturday morning,All six passengers—who were not named—were pronounced dead at the scene,

to the Riverside Sheriff's Office, which added the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the incident. The plane departed Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas before leaving for Murrieta, FAA officials told, which speculated that heavy fog could have caused the plane to miss the airport’s runway by several hundred yards.

The crash caused a fire that burned an estimated one acre of vegetation, according to the Riverside County Fire Department, which said it extinguished the blaze an hour later.Saturday’s incident is the second deadly crash near the French Valley Airport.

 

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