United States: About three people who were killed after two planes crashed over an airport on the central coast of California on Thursday, according to the authorities.
The planes collided at Watsonville Municipal Airport just before 3 p.m. as they were trying to land, mentioned Michelle Pulido, a spokeswoman for the city of Watsonville.
The Federal Aviation Administration described the planes in a statement as a twin-engine Cessna 340 with two people on board and a single-engine Cessna 152 with one person aboard.
They were on their final approaches when they collided, as per the agency.
All of the three people aboard the two planes died, and none of them had been identified as of late Friday afternoon, according to the authorities.
Along with this, a dog on board the 340 also perished, and all three victims were adults, as per the officials.
“The person, the machine and environment” will be the focus of a probe into the crash, National Transportation Safety Board air safety investigator Fabian Salazar told reporters on Friday.
It could take up to about two years for a final report to be issued.
Furthermore, according to the sources, no one on the ground was injured.
