Six people were killed in an early Saturday morning plane crash in southern California’s Riverside County, making it the second deadly plane disaster the area has seen in the past week.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna C550 business jet departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. At around 4:15 a.m, the jet crashed just north of the French Valley Airport in Murrieta, California. It is not immediately clear who was in the plane at the time of the crash, which took place near Briggs and Auld roads and is now under investigation by the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board.said in a statement.
The crash comes just four days after one male was killed and three more were injured after a single-engine plane struck the side of a building near French Valley Airport. The FAA said that four people were aboard the Cessna 172 when it took off from the California airport around 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday before crashing shortly afterwards. Local television footage showed that the plane was upside down in a parking lot.
The FAA’s preliminary accident report for the Tuesday incident states that the crash occurred following “unknown circumstances after take off.” The plane was
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