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Russia Today
04-05-2025
- General
- Russia Today
Plane crashes into homes in California (VIDEOS)
A small aircraft crashed into two homes in Simi Valley, California on Saturday, killing the pilot, officials have said. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the single-engine Van's Aircraft RV-10 took off from General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, north of Los Angeles, and was en route to Camarillo Airport in Ventura County. The Ventura County Fire Department said people were inside both homes at the time of the crash but evacuated without injuries. The identity of the pilot has not been made public. A witness told RMG News that he saw the plane 'flying very low and erratic' shortly before the crash.#meadowincident; VCFD is on scene of a small, single engine fixed-wing aircraft that crashed into two structures in the 200 block of High Meadow Street in the Wood Ranch area of Simi valley. The structures are both two-story, single-family homes that were impacted by fire and… The US has experienced a string of deadly aviation incidents in recent months. In late January, an American Airlines plane collided with a US Army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, killing a total of 67 people in both aircraft. Several days later, a medical plane crashed in Philadelphia, claiming the lives of all six people on board as well as one person on the ground.
New York Times
04-05-2025
- General
- New York Times
Small Plane Crashes Into Simi Valley, Calif., Homes, Killing Pilot
A small plane crashed into two homes in Simi Valley, Calif., on Saturday, killing the pilot, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Ventura County Fire Department. Residents were inside the two-story, single-family homes, and were evacuated without any injuries, the fire department said. The homes suffered structural damage and fire damage. The identity of the pilot was not released. Video posted on social media by the fire department showed firefighters on a roof tending to a smoking area of one of the houses. The plane, a single engine fixed-wing Van's Aircraft RV-10, had departed from General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster and was heading to Camarillo Airport near the city of Thousand Oaks before it crashed around 2:10 p.m., the F.A.A. said. Simi Valley is a city of 125,000 people about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Photos from the scene showed smoke billowing shortly after the crash and, later, a gaping hole in the roof of a structure. 'The plane was flying very low and attempted to gain altitude a couple of times but looked like it could not,' an X user, who posted a photo after the crash, said on social media.
Los Angeles Times
30-01-2025
- Los Angeles Times
Pilot's door was open moments before Fullerton plane crash that killed 2 and injured 19, investigators say
The door to a pilot's plane appeared to be ajar as it took off from Fullerton Airport, moments before it crashed into a warehouse, killing two and injuring 19 others, according to investigators. The Jan. 2 crash killed a Huntington Beach man, who had been piloting the plane, and his 16-year-old daughter and injured 19 workers in the facility, officials said. The two killed were identified as Pascal and Kelly Reid. Citing witness statements and video, investigators said the left door of the Van's Aircraft RV-10 was left ajar after the plane had taken off, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board. A witness at the airport saw the plane go by him after takeoff, noticing that the 'left door was open and up. He then saw an arm reach up and pull the door down,' according to the report. The witness assumed that the pilot had closed the door, the report says. Modifications had been made to the door, including to the standard locking system, which affected the warning system that was designed to alert the pilot when the door isn't closed, according to the report. The door had solid steel locking pins instead of kit-supplied aluminum pins, the report said. The plane's UHMW polyethylene door blocks had also been replaced with chamfered aluminum blocks, according to the report. Another witness, who knew the pilot, saw him taxi the airplane from the southeast corner of the airport's runway, according to the report. Security video showed that the left front door was 'in the down position' but was 'not flush with the fuselage.' After takeoff, the pilot transmitted a signal to the control tower for an 'immediate landing' and the tower controller asked whether he could make a left turn, according to the report. The pilot reported that he would land on Runway 24, climbing to about 950 feet and completing a left turn. The plane then passed the threshold for Runway 24, and an 'unintelligible transmission was heard' from the plane. The plane crashed into the roof of a Michael Nicholas Designs furniture warehouse store, about 1,500 feet from the approach end of Runway 24, according to the report. Other witnesses said they saw the plane flying lower than normal during its final stages of flight, the report said. The plane rolled to the left and then to the right as its nose dropped and dived toward the warehouse, 'where it collided in a fireball,' according to the report. Just before the crash, the witnesses said, they saw a 'white piece fall from the airplane' that appeared 'panel-like' as it 'floated' to the ground.
