Auto Mall Sues for Damages From ’93 Jet Crash

The owners of a Honda dealership at the Santa Ana Auto Mall have sued the owners of a small corporate jet for financial losses incurred when the plane crashed into the mall on Dec. 15, 1993, killing all five people aboard.

Because the operators “negligently owned, piloted, maintained, operated and controlled the airplane . . . (the dealership) suffered damages to its personal property, including several Honda automobiles,” according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Orange County Superior Court by Bob Jackson & Son Inc. against Management Activities Inc., asks for $500,000 in damages.

The dealership lost several Hondas and suffered other damage, according to the suit. It also had to close for six days for repairs.

The Westwind II airplane had been chartered by a group of executives of the In-N-Out Burgers chain. Among those killed in the crash was the chain’s president, Rich Snyder.