Pilot and passenger killed in plane crash near Morongo Valley
The pilot and passenger of a plane that crashed near Morongo Valley Tuesday night died in the crash, as confirmed by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
The pilot was a man and the passenger was a woman. Their identities have not been released.
News Channel 3 confirmed that there was evidence that a female passenger was onboard the flight that crashed near Morongo Valley Wednesday night, according to a National Transportation Board official.
The evidence appeared to be the luggage of a female passenger.
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Crews have already been up to crash scene of the aircraft and removed the wreckage from the mountain Thursday.
The single-engine Cessna 172 crashed ‘under unknown circumstances’ around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday into the side of a canyon, according to information sent to News Channel 3 by a Federal Aviation Administration official. The plane departed San Gabriel Valley Airport bound for North Las Vegas airport at 5:30 p.m.
News Channel 3 has been in touch with the family of a woman who has not been heard from since taking a private flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas during the same time frame as the plane’s crash.
Anyone with information relating to this incident is urged to local authorities.
