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Five Injured After Small Plane Crashes in Compton Neighborhood
Urban Search and Rescue teams from
Downey and Vernon Fire Departments stabilize a home in Compton’s
Sunny Cove that suffered major damage after a plane crashed into
it i on Saturday, April 12. A small airplane crashed into a home
several blocks from the Compton-Woodley Airport injuring five people,
three on the ground and two from the aircraft. Four of the victims
were reported to be in critical condition. —AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
COMPTON – Kenneth
Wyatt said he was watching TV when he heard an enormous thud that “shook
my house.”
Running outside, he first noticed debris and smoke. Then he saw what
had happened.
“An airplane had come through the roof of my neighbor’s
home,” Wyatt,
48, said.
Five people were injured when a twin-engine Cessna 310 crashed into
two homes just before 4 p.m. Sat-urday near the Comp-ton/Woodley
Airport, said Federal Aviation Admin-istration spokesman Ian Gregor.
The plane was carrying two men and both were transported to hospitals
in critical condition, Gregor said.
In one house, a woman was critically injured and a man suffered less
serious injuries, according to Gregor. In the other home a woman
complained of chest pains.
The crash did not result in a fire, according to Downey fire Capt.
Lonnie Kroom. Television images showed the plane’s fuselage
had crashed through one roof and its left wing was lodged in a second
home.
Gregor said the flight originated at Montgomery Field in San Diego
and was heading for Hawthorne Municipal Airport, about 10 miles away.
The Cessna is owned by Eureka International of Carson City, Nev.,
Gregor said.
Hawthorne Airport has an air traffic control tower, but it wasn’t
immediately known if the pilot was in contact with controllers.
Federal investigators are investigating the crash.
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