Crews from Avalon and the L.A. County fire and sheriff's departments found the plane about a mile west of Catalina Airport. Five people were dead at the scene.
Five people are dead after a twin-engine plane crashed on Catalina Island on Tuesday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. Just after 8 p.m., deputies at the sheriff's Avalon station on the island received a 911 emergency notification from a cellphone alerting them that the plane had been in a collision involving injuries and sent them GPS coordinates, the Sheriff's Department said in a news release. Crews from Avalon and the L.A.
The Beechcraft 95 had departed the airport with five people on board moments before it crashed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Five adults were found dead at the scene, the Sheriff's Department said. The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash. Catalina has been the site of several serious aviation crashes. In 2002, five people died when the aircraft slammed into a hillside on the island.
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