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muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:24 AM Feb 2019

California plane crash: five die when aircraft hits house

Source: The Guardian

Five people have died in Southern California after a small plane crashed into a house on Sunday, setting the home on fire.

Orange County Sheriff’s Cory Martino said the pilot died as well as four occupants of the home in Yorba Linda, which is about 35 miles (56km) southeast of Los Angeles.

Martino said two other people had been taken to hospital with moderate injuries.

A spokesman with the National Transportation Safety Board said the twin-engine Cessna 414A crashed shortly after taking off from a nearby airport.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/04/dead-after-light-plane-crashes-into-house-in-southern-california

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NurseJackie

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1. Tragic.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 11:46 AM

Feb 2019

Cessna 414 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_414

The Cessna 414 is an American light, pressurized, twin-engine transport aircraft built by Cessna. It first flew in 1968 and an improved variant was introduced ...
Number built?: ?1070
First flight?: ?November 1, 1968
Produced?: ?1968-1985

Eugene

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2. Police: Pilot in fatal California crash had fake records

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Tue Feb 5, 2019, 10:33 PM

Feb 2019

Source: Associated Press

Police: Pilot in fatal California crash had fake records

By John Antczak, Associated Press | UPDATED - Feb 5th, 2019 @ 7:06pm | Posted - Feb 5th, 2019 @ 10:19am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man piloting a small plane that broke apart over a Southern California neighborhood had false credentials identifying him as a retired Chicago police officer, authorities said Tuesday.

Antonio Pastini was killed when the twin-engine plane broke up shortly after takeoff and fell in pieces in Yorba Linda, igniting a fire in a home where four people died on Sunday. The cause of the crash has not been determined.

Pastini, 75, was initially identified as a retired officer but Chicago police said there were no records of him working for the department.

The credentials found at the crash site included false retirement papers and a police badge bearing the same number as a badge reported lost in 1978, Chicago police Officer Michelle Tannehill told the Orange County Register .

Orange County sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Braun said the credentials were not legitimate but the pilot was indeed Pastini. The victims inside the home have yet to be publicly identified.

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