Twin-engine aircraft Cessna 414 crashed in Southern California, causing the death of five people. The aircraft declared an emergency during approach then crashed vertically nose down and impacted at least one car on a commercial center parking at 3800 block of Bristol Street in Santa Ana. There was no fire after the accident, but the crash caused death to 5 people.
Fortunately there were no injuries on the ground. The plane touched one of the cars in the parking lot, but its owner was at that moment in the shopping center.
The cause of the incident is under investigation. The US Federal Aviation Administration reported that shortly before the fall, the pilot of the plane announced an emergency.
The crash site is just north of the popular South Coast Plaza shopping mall and a few blocks northwest of John Wayne Airport, which was the pilot’s destination.
The plane is registered to the San Francisco-based real estate company Category III and had left Concord, according to an FAA database. Family members identified one of the victims as Nasim Ghanadan, who was a realtor from the East Bay and on the flight for work. They said she was 29 years old.
The Cessna 414 is an American light, pressurized, twin-engine transport aircraft built by Cessna. It first flew in 1968 and an improved variant was introduced from 1978 as the 414A Chancellor. Cessna 414 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a conventional tail unit and a retractable tricycle landing gear. It is powered by two wing-mounted 310 hp (231 kW) Continental TSIO-520-J horizontally-opposed six cylinder engines.
