FATAL CRASH AT FOX FIELD INVESTIGATED.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Federal aviation officials inspected wreckage Friday to try to learn why a private plane crashed into a hangar Thursday night at Gen. William J. Fox Airfield, killing an instructor and his student pilot. Officials said the investigation into the crash won't be concluded for months but that the twin-engine plane might have had one engine out as it skidded off the runway. ``It flew right into the front of the hangar,'' said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Fire Inspector Kurt Schaefer  This biographical article or section is written like a resume.Please help [ improve this article] by revising it to be and encyclopedic. () Kurt Schaefer (Ph.D. . The names of the two men who died were not immediately released. Officials said it could take several days to confirm their identities through dental records Dental Records is a small, independent metal record label, based in Ipswich, UK. Artists
The instructor was described as an Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley man, and the plane was owned by Barnes Aviation at Fox Airfield. Barnes officials declined comment Friday. Officials differed over what the pilots had been doing before the crash. A Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control report said the student was practicing simulated ``engine-out'' approaches. Sheriff's officials said they were told he had been practicing instrument-only approaches, landing and taking off using instruments to guide him rather than the view out the windshield. Fox is popular for such flying practice, since it is small and uncrowded, pilots say. Witnesses said the plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft Travelair, crashed into a hangar at the end of a row of the six prefabricated pre·fab·ri·cate tr.v. pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing, pre·fab·ri·cates 1. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and hangars installed at the airport within the past few weeks. A single-engine Cessna Skylane stored inside the hangar was hit, and both aircraft burst into flames. The airport's crash truck crew and Los Angeles County firefighters fought the flames. It took some 35 firefighters about 15 minutes to douse douse 1 also dowse v. doused also dowsed, dous·ing also dows·ing, dous·es also dows·es v.tr. 1. To plunge into liquid; immerse. See Synonyms at dip. 2. the flames, Schaefer said. National Transportation Safety Board officials are investigating the crash. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Firefighters at Fox Field in Lancaster inspect the wreckage of a private plane that crashed Thursday night, killing a flight instructor and his student. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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