A federal investigator says the death toll in Sunday’s Midar collision in Southern California has risen to five.
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“It seems that it was a really violent crash as you’ll be able to inform by each aircrafts which are in a number of items”, Cal Hearth Division Chief Nick Schuler stated, to KNSD-TV, including: “We don’t know something concerning the identities the victims nor the place they have been taking off or the place they have been going”. “Witnesses reported hearing the midair collision”.
The planes reportedly caught hearth after falling to the bottom and breaking up. “And we had numerous reports that there was fire in the area”.
The pilot of the Cessna, who was also killed in the crash was allegedly on a cross-country trip.
“BAE Systems employees send their thoughts and prayers to the family members and co-workers of those killed”, spokesperson Amanda Desourdis said. The Sabreliner, which had four people onboard, was registered to BAE Systems and was in the middle of a mission training flight, revealed the National Transportation Safety Board in a statement.
The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into what caused a deadly plane crash in California Sunday morning.
By the time first-responders arrived, the planes were “on the ground in multiple pieces”, Schuler told reporters, according to CNN.
There were no survivors. His name has not been released. Today, the airport acts as a “reliever” facility to ease the load on the region’s global airport Lindbergh Field, according to the Los Angeles Times. Whereas the Sabreliner crashed on a grassy slope, the Cessna jet crashed inside the boundaries of the San Diego Nationwide Wildlife Refuge. Debris from the wreckage sparked a brush fire, which was quickly extinguished. Firefighters from the Chula Vista Fire Department responded to the scene and one of them suffered a minor heat-related exhaustion injury, Schuler reportedly said.
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The details of the crash are under investigation by the FAA and NTSB.
