![]() (Credit: Jim Bishop)īishop said the passengers were calm but angry - many missed connecting flights as they sat on the tarmac waiting for instructions. " And then a stewardess just came by and we asked him what could we do - you know, we've been sitting here for an hour and the air is not on, it's stuffy as it can be in here - and he said 'Well, this has never happened so we don't know what to do.'" Passenger Jim Bishop captured this photo after two planes collided at Detroit Metro Airport. "Somebody came over and said there was an accident," he said. A man was killed and three people were injured on July Fourth when a single-engine Cessna 172 crashed in a parking lot shortly after takeoff from French Valley.Roughly five to 10 minutes passed, Bishop said, before crews told passengers what was going on. It was the second fatal crash this week at the small county-owned airport in Murrieta, a city with about 112,000 residents. ![]() Officials with the company could not be reached for comment. The FAA’s aircraft tracking database lists the jet as owned by Prestige Worldwide Flights LLC of Imperial, California. Investigators will review recordings between the pilot and air traffic control.Ī preliminary report was expected in about two weeks, the NTSB said. “The visibility and ceilings allowed for a landing, but it was right on the minimums" of the regulations set for that airport, he said. ![]() The pilot was cleared for a landing using only instruments because of limited visibility from the low cloud ceiling, Simpson said. The plane, which had departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas for the 45-minute flight to Murietta, crashed during its second approach, the NTSB said. The victims, all adults, were not immediately identified. Investigators were combing through a debris field about 200 feet (60 meters) long, he said.Īll six people on board died at the scene, the Riverside County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. “Most of the airplane, with the exception of the tail, was consumed by fire,” Simpson told reporters at an afternoon briefing. ![]()
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