A twin-engine Cessna 414 plane carrying six people crashed off the coast of San Diego in Southern California over the weekend, killing everyone on board.
A twin-engine Cessna 414 plane carrying six people crashed off the coast of San Diego in southern California over the weekend, killing all on board, US authorities said. The plane reportedly crashed around 12:30 p.m. local time on June 8, a few miles west of Point Loma, one of San Diego’s oldest coastal communities.
According to a VNA correspondent in the US, the Joint Operations Center, a joint command center for US state and federal maritime operations, received the initial report about 15 minutes after the crash.
Searchers from local and federal agencies located the area where the plane’s debris was as they searched for survivors by air and sea.
outhern California over the weekend, killing everyone on board.
No further details about the crash, including the identities of those on board, were immediately available.
According to flight tracking website Flightaware.com, the plane was returning to Phoenix a day after flying from Arizona.
The small plane, which departed San Diego International Airport at around 12:24 p.m. local time, crashed just minutes after takeoff./.Plane carrying 20 people crashed in Tennessee, many victims hospitalizedThe US Federal Aviation Administration announced that the plane crashed shortly after taking off from Tullahoma Regional Airport in Tennessee at around 00:45 on June 9, Hanoi time.
A de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter plane carrying 20 people crashed in Tennessee on June 8, authorities said. Several people on board were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries.
On social media X, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said it was assisting authorities “at the scene of a plane crash on Old Shelbyville Road” in central Coffee County. Some victims “were airlifted to nearby hospitals.”
Images posted on social media showed a small white plane with its nose buried in the grass and its tail broken off.
Meanwhile, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a statement confirming that the plane “crashed shortly after takeoff from Tullahoma Regional Airport in Tennessee at approximately 12:45 p.m. Sunday (00:45 a.m. on June 9, Hanoi time).”
According to the FAA, “there were 20 people on board” and the agency is investigating the cause of the crash.
Local media reported that the crashed plane was used for skydiving activities./.