PLANE CRASH AT AIRFIELD KILLS TWO.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services A twin-engine plane crashed into a hangar at Gen. William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster on Thursday night, bursting into flames and killing the pilot and a passenger, authorities said. The names of the two dead men were not released late Thursday. No one on the ground was injured, but one hangar and a parked airplane in it were destroyed. ``We can't confirm how many people were on the plane, but there were no survivors,'' Capt. Mark Savage of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La told The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . The pilot reportedly was practicing an instrument-only approach when the crash occurred, killing two aboard. Witnesses said the plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft, crashed into a hangar at the end of a row of 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. A parked single-engine Cessna inside the hangar was hit, and both craft burst into flames. The hangars apparently were brand new, built within the past few weeks. Training for an instrument license sometimes involves piloting while wearing a hood, relying only on flight instruments Most aircraft are equipped with a standard set of flight instruments which give the pilot information about the aircraft's attitude, airspeed, and altitude. Most aircraft have these seven basic flight instruments: It took about 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, Savage said. The crash occurred shortly after 7:30 p.m. at the small desert airfield about 60 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . Federal investigators were en route to the airport, Savage said. |
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