Small plane crash at Southern California airport kills 2, officials say
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Two people were killed Wednesday after a small homebuilt plane crashed at a Southern California airport, fire officials said.
The single-engine Express Series 2000 crashed around 1:30 p.m. at Camarillo Airport, about 55 miles northwest of Los Angeles, according to the Ventura County Fire Department.
“There were 2 souls on board and unfortunately both lost their lives due to the crash,” the fire department tweeted. All other details are under investigation."
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In an earlier tweet, the department said the single-engine plane crashed “just off the runway in the grass field with no fire.” Television news footage showed the plane broken apart in a grass field.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said in a statement that the plane "crashed under unknown circumstances about 1,000 feet short of Runway 26 ... "
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The spokesman added, “The NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] is the lead agency and it typically takes the NTSB a year or more to determine a probable cause of an accident.”
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The victims' identities were not immediately released.
The Ventura County Star reported that the plane was coming in for a landing when it went down. The paper added that the aircraft was built from a kit in 2002.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Associated Press contributed to this report.