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       BURNING PLANE CRASH IN CALIFORNIA
       By: wolfie Date: March 17, 2011, 2:05 am
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       Firefighters extinguish burning plane in Calif. fatal crash
       Twin-engine plane crashed in a fireball after takeoff, killing 5
       people, critically injuring another
       The Associated Press
       LONG BEACH, Calif. — A twin-engine plane crashed in a fireball
       shortly after takeoff Wednesday, killing five people and
       critically injuring a sixth, authorities said.
       A privately-owned Beechcraft King Air turboprop had taken off
       but was circling back when it went down at about 10:30 a.m.,
       Long Beach Airport Director Mario Rodriguez said.
       He did not immediately know why the plane turned around. The
       aircraft exploded in a fireball, he said.
       Five people were pronounced dead at the scene and a man was
       taken to the hospital in critical condition, Rodriguez said.
       The victims' identities were not immediately released.
       The burning plane sparked a small ground fire that was quickly
       extinguished, Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Reeb said.
       The front half of the plane and its wings came to rest on a
       grass median between two taxiways, which are used by planes to
       enter and leave runways. The plane left a scorched trail dozens
       of feet long as it apparently plowed through the grass.
       Rodriguez said the crash closed the two taxiways and one of the
       airport's five runways. Commercial flights were not affected, he
       said.
       It was the first crash at the airport in more than 30 years,
       Rodriguez said.
       The plane was departing for Salt Lake City when it went down,
       said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation
       Administration. An FAA website said the plane was registered to
       a Los Angeles company called Carde Equipment Sales LLC. There
       was no public phone listing for the company.
       Copyright 2010 Associated Press.
       The cause of the crash was under investigation.
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