Rex Minter was said to have been the passenger on the Cessna plane that hit the shoreline and flipped over just after 3 p.m.
A former Santa Monica mayor was killed in the light aircraft that crashed on the beach just south ofon Thursday. , according to CBS Los Angeles. The outlet added that the single-engine aircraft went down less than 10 minutes after taking off from Santa Monica on a flight to Malibu.
Minter served as Santa Monica mayor from 1963-1967 after first being elected to the city council in 1955. He went on to serve as an attorney for Arcadia and a judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the city of Santa Monica said in a statement, sending officials’ “deepest condolences” to Minter’s family. The statement described Minter as an “avid aviator.”
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