LOS ANGELES (Aiexpress)— According to audio from air traffic control, the pilot of a small plane tried to make an emergency landing soon after takeoff, but the plane crashed through the roof of a building in Southern California. Moments before the crash, a female voice can be heard saying, “Oh my God.”
Two people died and 19 were hurt in the crash on Thursday. Public records from the Federal Aviation Administration show that Pascal Reid of Huntington Beach, California, owned the plane. The girls soccer team at Huntington Beach High School wrote on Instagram on Friday that Reid and his daughter Kelly, who was a student there, died in a plane crash.
The post said, “Yesterday, our soccer family lost someone we can’t even imagine.” “Kelly was naturally kind and always put other people first.” We will miss her a lot. Her dad was at every game and was always so proud of her.
That the coroner’s office hasn’t named the dead or confirmed that they were on the plane yet.
When the pilot called the air traffic control tower, the plane had just taken off from the Fullerton Municipal Airport. “Immediate landing required,”
At first, the pilot told the air traffic manager that he was going to land on Runway 6. After telling another plane to stay away from that area, the air traffic controller told the pilot he could land on either Runway 6 or 24. Instead, the pilot said he was going to land on Runway 24. After a short time, terrified gasping and a “Oh my God” could be heard right before the sound stopped.
Investigators from the federal government said the plane asked to go back to the airport at a height of about 900 feet (274 meters). It went down through a huge building owned by Michael Nicholas Designs that makes furniture, about 1,000 feet (305 meters) short of Runway 24.
A preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration says that the plane crashed for “unknown reasons.”
Police said that eight people were treated and sent home at the scene, while eleven were taken to hospitals. Michael Meacham, deputy chief of fire operations for Fullerton, said the injuries ranged from not too bad to very bad.
A wheel factory across the street, Rucci Forged, has security cameras that caught the plane as it crashed into the building. The plane was on its side, which caused an explosion and a black cloud of smoke.
Chris Villalobos, who works in airport operations, said that the owner of the plane often came to the airport and took off from his own garage.
The FAA said the plane was a Van’s RV-10, a famous home-built airplane that comes in kit form and has one engine. Investigators said the plane was made in 2011.
Tim Olson is an aviation fanatic who bought an early RV-10 plane kit. He said that he had been in email contact with Reid over the years and knew him to be a “diligent, responsible” pilot and plane builder. O.L.son said that the RV-10 was popular because it was a “easy-to-build” plane from a respected kit maker. He said he had flown his own plane more than 1,500 hours and even took it to the Cayman Islands.
He said, “It’s really sad to hear that it ended this way for him.” “Being in touch with him, I know he did travel and stayed in his plane all over the country a lot.”
Sites for school sports say that Reid’s daughter Kelly is a junior at Huntington Beach High School and plays flag football, soccer, and lacrosse.
The Fullerton airport has one runway and a place for helicopters to land. Metrolink, a regional train line, is close by and runs along the sides of a residential area and business warehouses.
In a social media post, the Fullerton City Council called the crash a “solemn tragedy.”
As stated in the statement, Mayor Fred Jung promised that the City of Fullerton would help everyone who was harmed and work with the other agencies to find out what happened. “We’re thankful that our community is strong and that people care about each other in times of trouble.”
The Orange County Register reported that in November, a four-seat plane crashed into a tree about a half mile (0.8 km) from the airport while making an emergency landing soon after takeoff. Both people on board were hurt pretty badly.
Around 140,000 people live in Fullerton, which is about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Los Angeles.
