Two aircraft, one of them an aerobatic stunt plane, crashed into the water after an midair collision off San Pedro, prompting a multi-agency search for survivors on Friday afternoon, the Coast Guard confirmed to KTLA.
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Searchers found wreckage, including a pilot’s logbook, from the Beechcraft plane that was carrying the two men.
Williams said both planes had taken off from the nearby Torrance Airport and both pilots were experienced.
A woman was believed to have been piloting the second plane, which has not made contact or been seen since the crash, Anderson said.
This plane has still not been located, authorities said.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will lead efforts using divers and sonar to recover additional wreckage, the statement said.
The weather was clear, and there’s no word on a cause.
In one plane were two men ages 61 and 81, and in the other aircraft was a 72-year-old woman, according to the Coast Guard and KABC-TV.
The search for wreckage and possible survivors is expected to continue through the night and into Saturday.
U.S. Coast Guard crew members and Los Angeles firefighters investigate a light plane reportedly down off of San Pedro, Calif., Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. He said she never came home and that he’s certain her small-engine plane went down.
Williams said: “We don’t want to give up until we really feel that there’s no chance that we haven’t scanned the area, searched the whole area and looked for survivors”. Fire and lifeguard boats and rescue divers swarmed the area. It’s unknown how many people were on board.
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Richard Garnett, a flight instructor with the Long Beach Flying Club, told Fox News that there are typically three or four planes circling that area at any given time.
