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Another Plane Crashes, 2 Dead, 19 Injured

Smoke rises from a roof after a small plane crash in Fullerton, Calif., on Jan. 2, 2025.
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By Our Reporter

Barely five days after a passenger plane skidded off the runway and caught fire at an airport in South Korea’s Muan city, with over 100 people dead, another small plane has crashed into furniture warehouse, Police in Southern with two people dead and 19 others injured.

The crash happened in the 2300 block of Raymer Avenue in Fullerton, California, not far from the Fullerton Municipal Airport, according to the police.

Fullerton police said the two people who died are believed to have been inside the plane at the time of the crash. The people who were injured were working inside the building. Their injuries ranged from minor to very severe. Of the injured, 11 were taken to the hospital.

The single-engine, four-seat airplane took off from the airport shortly after 2 p.m. local time and climbed to 900 feet before radioing the control tower to request an immediate return to the airport, according to Elliot Simpson, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.

The pilot was cleared to land. However, the plane took a 180-degree turn and crashed about 1,000 feet short of the runway, crashing into a furniture warehouse and catching fire, Simpson told reporters during a news conference.

Simpson said the plane involved was a kit-built Van’s Aircraft RV-10 that was constructed in 2011. A kit-built is one in which the owner builds it and maintains it themselves and the Federal Aviation Administration inspects it to clear it to fly. Simpson said kit-built aircraft are common.

It’s unclear why the pilot radioed to return to the airport, but Simpson said authorities are continuing their investigation.

The crash caused a large fire and led to significant damage to part of the warehouse, said Michael Meacham, with the Fullerton Fire Department.

Credit KABC News

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