Seven Victims in Crash of Small Plane Identified
Authorities on Tuesday identified the seven Southern California residents who were killed in a weekend plane crash minutes after takeoff from Las Vegas.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the victims as George Derenia, 57, of Palos Verdes Estates; Dennis Derenia, 37, of Lomita; Phyllis Rose, 69, of El Toro; Brad Rose, 34, of El Toro; Carol Hubbell, 38, of El Toro; Nancy Osten, 33, of Newport Beach, and Susan Love, 58, Torrance.
Coroner Ron Flud said the elder Derenia owned the plane and was a licensed pilot.
Gary Mucho, regional director of the National Transportation Safety Board, said there was no obvious cause for the crash, which occurred Saturday night when the twin-engine aircraft slammed into the side of a mountain after taking off from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, bound for Torrance.
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