Officials in California pulled five bodies on Sunday from a small plane that crashed in the central part of the state, police said.
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The plane departed from Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose and was headed to Henderson Executive Airport in Clark County, which is located just outside Las Vegas, Nevada.
The investigation into the crash is ongoing, Beasley said, adding that the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were slated to arrive on Sunday.
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Sergeant Mark King from Kern County Sheriff’s Office told reporters the victims’ identities have not yet been released. Debris was found 3-hours later. The plane sent a mayday call and searchers spotted the wreckage southwest of Bakersfield about three hours after receiving an FAA alert about a missing plane. News storiesdisplayed here appear in our category for US Headlines and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.comand The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization. The plane missed several FAA locational vectors, indicating it had traveled off course, and quickly descended 15,000 feet as the pilot apparently lost control of the plane. The bodies from the accident have been recovered, and the coroner’s office is in the process of identifying them, according to Sgt. King. If precedence of similar cases is to be taken into account, it will take agencies months and if not longer to identify the possible causes for the plane crash.
