3 killed in small plane crash in Southern California
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}California Authorities say a pilot from Phoenix, his wife and daughter were killed when a home-built airplane crashed in a San Diego County nature preserve.
Sheriff's Lt. Scott Amos says the single-engine plane went down Saturday morning within Sycamore Canyon Open Space Preserve near Santee. Medical examiners said the dead included a 65-year-old man, his 53-year-old wife and their 19-year-old daughter.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the four-seat Lancair IV-P had departed from San Diego's Montgomery Field en route to Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
The Lancair web site says the IV-P is one of a series of aircraft kits that are no longer in production