Five people were killed in a plane crash on Santa Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles County.
Authorities are working to recover the bodies of five people who were killed when a small plane crashed on Catalina Island Tuesday night off the Southern California coast.
The crash happened at around 8 p.m. Authorities said five to six people were aboard the plane when it went down about a mile west of the airport.According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, they received an emergency S.O.S. alert, letting them know that someone was involved in a crash. The plane is believed to have taken off from Santa Monica Municipal Airport and landed at the Catalina Airport about 30 miles off the Los Angeles County coast at around 6 p.m. Tuesday. The plane took off again at around 8 p.m., but it was unclear where it was headed. That's when authorities received the emergency alert."I did see it from the air. It appeared to be a white aircraft, mostly intact," said Capt. Matthew King, of the LA County Sheriff's Department.
The plane's registered owner was identified as Ali Reza Safai, 73, of West Hills. Safai's wife identified him as one of the people on board the plane.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.A spokesperson with Proteus, a flight school at the Santa Monica Airport, said Safai rented a space for his personal aircraft at the airport.
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