Plane down in Corona

[socalmike]

Aircraft down near the airport Wardlow and 91 FWY area.

CPD and FIRE channels are very busy !

154.755 Corona pd
154.235 Corona Fire
122.800 Corona Unicom

 

[brandon]

4 fatalities. The media is reporting 2 from the planes, 1 in a car and 1 pedestrian.

 

[Sonar]

I just saw it on the news.

 

[landonjensen]

4 Confirmed DOA. I heard from the FAA that all 4 were on board of the plane.

 

[Sonar]

Fortunately no one on the ground was injured or killed.

 

[Markb]

Unfortunately, one of the salesmen in the Chevy dealership was killed as one of the aircraft came through the roof of the showroom......

 

[Sonar]

Unfortunately, one of the salesmen in the Chevy dealership was killed as one of the aircraft came through the roof of the showroom......

Oh, I didn't hear that on the news. I only heard about the folks on the plane that died. Thanks for the update.

 

[Sonar]

Ok, I checked the article online. Looks like the most up to date info is:

"We're told there were two fatalities from the collision, as well as two fatalities on the ground," Kenitzer said. "One, we're told, was in a car and one was walking."

 

[Mick]

Two planes collided

http://www.knbc.com/news/15099613/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

 

[brandon]

They are now saying a 5th person has died from this plane accident.

 

[landonjensen]

CORONA, Calif. -- Four people were killed Sunday when two planes collided about a mile from AJO-Corona Municipal Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Two people died in the collision and two people on the ground also were killed, said FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer, who emphasized the information was preliminary.

"We're told there were two fatalities from the collision, as well as two fatalities on the ground," Kenitzer said. "One, we're told, was in a car and one was walking."

Kenitzer said he is based in Seattle, and the information he reported came from FAA Operations personnel based in Los Angeles.

The crash was reported about 3:35 p.m. near Auto Center Drive and Wardlow Road, which parallels the Riverside (91) Freeway about a mile southwest of the airport, according to local media reports.

Virgil Rodriguez, a manager at the nearby Corona Nissan, told local media that sales staff and customers were outside when they heard an explosion and saw debris come raining down.

"It was like an explosion in the air and we seen debris flying all over the place," he said. "We all ran inside, everybody just ran for cover because everything was flying everywhere. I believe a body landed on top of a car, one in the middle of the street and the plane landed in the back of our building and crushed a couple of cars."

"At first we thought it was only one [plane], but we after everything came down, there was one in the back of our building and one in the middle of the street," Rodriguez said, adding that the planes appeared to be Cessnas.

Rodriguez said bodies landed all over the dealership.

"We got four bodies on our property -- two in the plane, one in the driveway and one on the car," he told local media.

The Corona airport is for general aviation and does not have a control tower, local media reported. The airport remained opened, according to local media.

 

[landonjensen]

Confirmed 5 here:
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=5903592

 

[Sonar]

Sun May Be The Cause Of Plane Collision

CORONA, Calif. (CBS) ― Federal investigators are beginning to think that glare from the sun may have been a primary cause of the weekend collision of two small planes over Corona, killing four people in the aircraft and one on the ground.

Physical evidence appears to confirm witness reports that the planes collided in flight before plummeting to the ground, and there was no immediate evidence of mechanical problems, said Wayne Pollack of the National Transportation Safety Board.

The skies were clear, but he said inspectors were looking into whether the afternoon sun may have played a role.

Corona resident Patrick Crask, 41, who often flies out of the local airport, told the Los Angeles Times he had planned to fly Sunday but decided not to because the sun was so bright he worried about visibility on takeoff.

"The sun can often be almost unbearable," he said. "If you were to come here at around 4 p.m., the sun is blinding for a good two minutes. You need to take extra precautions."

The crash was reported at 3:35 p.m. Sunday about a mile southwest of Corona Municipal Airport and involved a two-seat Cessna 150 and a four-seat Cessna 172, authorities said.

Full story here
http://cbs2.com/local/plane.collision.crash.2.635047.html

 

[rdale]

Sun was not the cause, it may have helped, but obviously both pilots could not have been 'blinded' at the same time so that's not possible...