BAKERSFIELD, California : Rescuers pulled five bodies from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into an orchard in central California after vanishing from radar, local and federal authorities said on Sunday.
The Federal Aviation Administration was trying to determine what caused the crash that killed five people, Kern County sheriff's Sgt Mark King said. He expected the names of the victims to be released today.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the single-engine Piper PA32 around 4 pm on Saturday as it headed from Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose to Henderson Executive Airport in a Las Vegas suburb, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford said it was rainy and cloudy in the area south of Bakersfield around the time the plane dropped off radar.
FAA records list an address for an owner of the plane. A woman who answered a number listed for that address would only say that her husband used to be part owner of the plane but sold his share.
The Federal Aviation Administration was trying to determine what caused the crash that killed five people, Kern County sheriff's Sgt Mark King said. He expected the names of the victims to be released today.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the single-engine Piper PA32 around 4 pm on Saturday as it headed from Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose to Henderson Executive Airport in a Las Vegas suburb, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford said it was rainy and cloudy in the area south of Bakersfield around the time the plane dropped off radar.
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FAA records list an address for an owner of the plane. A woman who answered a number listed for that address would only say that her husband used to be part owner of the plane but sold his share.
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