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Small plane went down over there.
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Plane crash kills 5 on Catalina Island
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A twin-engine plane crashed shortly after taking off from Catalina Airport in Avalon Tuesday night, Oct. 8, killing all five people on board, authorities said.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies with the Avalon Station received a notification from a cellphone shortly after the crash, just past 8 p.m., stating possible injuries and giving the phone’s location about one mile west of the airport, sheriff’s officials said.
Deputies arrived at an area of rough, steep terrain along with Los Angeles County firefighters and found the wreckage, officials said.
All five people aboard the Beechcraft 95 airplane were found dead.
Avalon Search and Rescue and Avalon City Fire Department members also assisted in the search, sheriff’s officials said.
The Federal Administration Aviation and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating. The FAA put out a preliminary report on Wednesday saying the plane crashed under unknown circumstances.
The plane was registered to a private owner out of West Hills in the San Fernando Valley, according to FAA records. FlightAware, a third-party flight-tracking website, shows the plane made an earlier flight from Santa Monica to Avalon, landing about 6:20 p.m.
The names of the plane’s occupants were not released by officials pending notification of relatives.
Other serious crashes have occurred on Catalina over the years.
In 2008, three people from Laguna Beach were killed and a fourth was injured when a single-engine Mooney M20j fell off the end of the runway after failing to take off.
The following year, three people, including a Dana Point pilot, were killed when a Beechcraft Bonanza crashed into a hillside after taking off from the airport. The pilot’s fiancée called authorities after the plane failed to arrive at John Wayne Airport.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies with the Avalon Station received a notification from a cellphone shortly after the crash, just past 8 p.m., stating possible injuries and giving the phone’s location about one mile west of the airport, sheriff’s officials said.
Deputies arrived at an area of rough, steep terrain along with Los Angeles County firefighters and found the wreckage, officials said.
All five people aboard the Beechcraft 95 airplane were found dead.
Avalon Search and Rescue and Avalon City Fire Department members also assisted in the search, sheriff’s officials said.
The Federal Administration Aviation and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating. The FAA put out a preliminary report on Wednesday saying the plane crashed under unknown circumstances.
The plane was registered to a private owner out of West Hills in the San Fernando Valley, according to FAA records. FlightAware, a third-party flight-tracking website, shows the plane made an earlier flight from Santa Monica to Avalon, landing about 6:20 p.m.
The names of the plane’s occupants were not released by officials pending notification of relatives.
Other serious crashes have occurred on Catalina over the years.
In 2008, three people from Laguna Beach were killed and a fourth was injured when a single-engine Mooney M20j fell off the end of the runway after failing to take off.
The following year, three people, including a Dana Point pilot, were killed when a Beechcraft Bonanza crashed into a hillside after taking off from the airport. The pilot’s fiancée called authorities after the plane failed to arrive at John Wayne Airport.
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"deputies with the Avalon Station received a notification from a cellphone shortly after the crash, just past 8 p.m., stating possible injuries and giving the phone’s location about one mile west of the airport, sheriff’s officials said"
Interesting. I assume the pilot had downloaded an app and allowed permission to auto-send notification to law in case of crash detection?
Interesting. I assume the pilot had downloaded an app and allowed permission to auto-send notification to law in case of crash detection?
Don't iphones come with that natively?
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I'm not sure about that specifically. But we've had calls from dispatch for phones that have notified them of an accident and it wound up being a phone that fell off a moving vehicle.
Of the 2 recent ones I've been on they were both iphones. So, probable I suppose.
Yes. My friend's uncle ran over his phone and it called my friend, all he could hear was his uncle screaming (at his new ran over phone) I guess they shared their location and was able to find the location of the accident.
Ditchrunner
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You can turn that notification off iirc. I did right after it was implemented, but the damn thing will still call 911 if I put it in my cup holder upside down.
Motorcharge
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It comes on Android and iOS and you can disable it on both. I have all that kind of shit turned off including the stuff that lets you find your phone if it's lost or stolen.