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                                                                                                 U.S. NEWS Tuesday 7 augusT 2018


























            5 killed after plane nosedived in


            Southern California parking lot



            SANTA  ANA,  Calif.  (AP)  —  The  plane  took  off  from  pled  and  broken  apart
            Witnesses  watched  in  hor-  Buchanan  Field  Airport  in  and  the  car  damaged.
            ror as a small plane banked  Concord,  California,  ac-   Several  roads  were  closed
            low  in  sunny  skies  over  a  cording  to  a  flight  tracker  surrounding  the  shopping
            Southern  California  shop-  service.                     center and the busy South
            ping center and then sud-    The  pilot  declared  an  Coast Plaza mall across the
            denly  nosedived,  crashing  emergency but didn't state  street.
            into a parking lot and killing  the  nature  of  his  problem  The plane is registered to a
            all five people on board.    before  crashing  about  a  San  Francisco-based  real    An investigator surveys the wreckage of a twin-engine aircraft
            Ella  Pham  and  her  boy-   mile  (1.6  kilometers)  from  estate  consulting  compa-  that crashed on Sunday near the South Coast Plaza shopping
            friend were walking across  John  Wayne  Airport,  Na-    ny,  Category  III,  accord-  center Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, in Santa Ana, Calif.
            the  lot  Sunday  when  they  tional Transportation Safety  ing to an FAA database. A                                           Associated Press
            saw  the  twin-engine  Cess-  Board  investigator  Albert  phone call to the company
            na plummet.                  Nixon  said  Monday.  Nixon  was  not  immediately  re-   ticated  cockpit  avionics  this metaphor and work to
            "We  looked  up  to  see  the  didn't  know  how  much  turned.                        working  together  to  safely  bring Category lll precision
            plane  falling  nose  first,"  time elapsed between the  "Category  III  is  an  aero-  land an aircraft in zero vis-  approach to our clients to
            Pham, 20, told the Los An-   distress call and the crash.  nautical  term  which  refers  ibility  conditions,"  says  a  deliver  better  results  for  all
            geles  Times  .  "It  was  so  The  plane  was  heading  to a combination of highly  statement  on  the  com-       aspects of complex real es-
            heartbreaking  just  seeing  to  the  airport  southeast  of  trained  pilots  and  sophis-  pany's  website.  "We  value  tate value extrications."q
            the  plane  crumbled  into  Los Angeles when it came
            pieces."                     down in the lot of a Staples
            The pilot of the Cessna 414  store and a CVS pharmacy,
            and  all  four  passengers  Orange County Fire Author-
            were killed, but nobody on  ity Captain Steve Concialdi
            the  ground  was  hurt,  au-  said.  There  was  no  fire,  he
            thorities said.              said.
            Three  of  the  victims  were  Four  unoccupied  parked
            co-workers at Pacific Union  cars  were  struck  in  the
            International,  a  San  Fran-  crash,  with  one  suffering
            cisco Bay Area real estate  major  damage,  Fire  Capt.
            firm,  and  the  two  others  Tony Bommarito said.
            were their family members,  Jesse  Perez  was  eating
            the company said.            lunch with a friend at Buffa-
            Nasim  Ghanadan,  29,  Flo-  lo Wild Wings, which shares
            ria  Hakimi,  62,  and  Lara  the  parking  lot,  when  he
            Shepherd, 42, were real es-  heard the crash.
            tate  agents  based  out  of  "It  sounded  like  a  truck  hit
            an  office  in  Danville,  Cali-  the  building,"  he  told  the
            fornia.  Hakimi's  son  Navid  Orange County Register .
            Hakimi, 32, and Shepherd's  Customers ran from the res-
            husband,  Scott  Shepherd,  taurant into the lot and saw
            the  plane's  53-year-old  pi-  the wreckage of the white
            lot, were also killed.       Cessna  with  green  and
            "Our  entire  Pacific  Union  blue trim.
            family  is  mourning  the  loss  "Bodies were hanging from
            of  our  colleagues,  family  out the side of the plane,"
            and  friends,"  CEO  Mark  A.  said  Perez,  adding  that
            McLaughlin said in a state-  emergency  workers  were
            ment.  "Life  is  precious  and  there  within  minutes.  "I
            we  are  focused  on  com-   couldn't  believe  what  was
            forting  the  loved  ones  af-  happening."
            fected  by  this  devastating  Photos  from  the  scene
            event."                      showed  the  plane  crum-
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