TWO KILLED, TWO INJURED IN PLANE CRASH.Byline: Daily News SOMIS -- A single-engine plane carrying a family of four crashed Saturday in a lemon orchard, killing two people and critically injuring two others, officials said. Sheriff's Capt. Ron Nelson Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, on December 14, 1929. After earning bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New said a 911 call was placed at 11:42 a.m. by two witnesses who reported seeing a plane flying south at a very low altitude, then twisting into the ground. The plane crashed into a drainage ditch along Center Street, about a quarter-mile east of Walnut Street A number of streets are named Walnut Street:
An 8-year-old boy and a man -- believed to be his father and the pilot of the plane, were ejected and survived, officials said. Two others died in the wreckage. The boy sustained back injuries and the man suffered a severed sev·er v. sev·ered, sev·er·ing, sev·ers v.tr. 1. To set or keep apart; divide or separate. 2. To cut off (a part) from a whole. 3. leg. Both were being treated at local hospitals. None of the victims' identities was released. The California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. and Ventura County Sheriff's and Fire departments responded to the crash. Officials from the 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 and the National Transportation Safety Board were expected to arrive and lead the investigation. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Ventura County Fire Public Information Officer Barry Parker, left, and Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Ron Nelson survey the crash site of a single-engine plane Saturday. The crash into a lemon grove Lemon Grove, uninc. town (1990 pop. 23,984), San Diego co., S Calif. Primarily residential, there is also agriculture and the manufacture of wire products, motor vehicle parts, and bricks. killed two people and critically injured another two. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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