Weather Cited in Crash That Killed 2
The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed and burned in a pasture near here, killing the two people aboard the aircraft, may have been lost in low clouds, authorities said Wednesday.
The pilot and his passenger were not immediately identified, the Riverside County coroner’s office said.
Just before the Piper Cherokee went down, the pilot radioed the tower at Norton Air Force Base in nearby San Bernardino that “he was having problems due to weather conditions,” said Barbara Buckner, a Riverside County Sheriff’s dispatcher. “We had cloud cover out here and he came in under the clouds.”
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