Small plane crashes off California coast, three feared dead
Representative ImageAn aircraft, bearing tail number N8796R and carrying three people, went down approximately 200–300 yards offshore late Saturday evening. The aircraft had originally departed from San Carlos Airport. All individuals aboard the aircraft are believed to be dead.According to an official statement from the US Coast Guard, search and recovery operations have concluded following the crash of a twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft near Point Pinos, California. According to details, at 10.55 pm on Saturday, Coast Guard Station Monterey received a relay from Monterey County reporting the crash. A 29-foot Response Boat–Small (RB-S) crew was immediately launched and arrived on scene within 15 minutes. Simultaneously, air crews from Coast Guard Air Stations San Francisco and Ventura deployed MH-65 Dolphin helicopters to assist in the search effort.The first unresponsive individual was located at 3.01 am Sunday by the Monterey Fire Boat 12 crew. Later, at 5.56 am, a CAL Fire drone identified the aircraft’s fuselage. Working alongside a commercial dive team, responders recovered the remaining two individuals, both unresponsive, between 6.31 am and 9.08 amIn total, Coast Guard and partner agency assets conducted a 13-hour search, covering approximately 346 trackline miles across a 100-square-mile area.
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An aircraft, bearing tail number N8796R and carrying three people, went down approximately 200–300 yards offshore late Saturday evening. The aircraft had originally departed from San Carlos Airport. All individuals aboard the aircraft are believed to be dead.
According to an official statement from the US Coast Guard, search and recovery operations have concluded following the crash of a twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft near Point Pinos, California.
According to details, at 10.55 pm on Saturday, Coast Guard Station Monterey received a relay from Monterey County reporting the crash. A 29-foot Response Boat–Small (RB-S) crew was immediately launched and arrived on scene within 15 minutes. Simultaneously, air crews from Coast Guard Air Stations San Francisco and Ventura deployed MH-65 Dolphin helicopters to assist in the search effort.
The first unresponsive individual was located at 3.01 am Sunday by the Monterey Fire Boat 12 crew. Later, at 5.56 am, a CAL Fire drone identified the aircraft’s fuselage. Working alongside a commercial dive team, responders recovered the remaining two individuals, both unresponsive, between 6.31 am and 9.08 am
In total, Coast Guard and partner agency assets conducted a 13-hour search, covering approximately 346 trackline miles across a 100-square-mile area.
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