Friday, January 3, 2025 - A small plane crashed into the roof of a California factory building on Thursday, Jan. 2, and burst, k!lling two people and wounding 18 others, according to officials.
The four-seat, single-engine aircraft nosedived into the furniture
manufacturing building — where at least 200 people were inside working at the
time — less than two minutes after it took off from Fullerton Municipal Airport
in Orange County, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking
website.
Officers and firefighters rushed to the scene of the crash around 2 p.m.
and battled the large blaze while evacuating the building, home to furniture
manufacturer Michael Nicholas Designs, and surrounding businesses, officials
said.
Two people were pronounced de@d at the scene, 10 people were rushed to
area hospitals and eight were treated at the scene and released, the Fullerton
Police Department said. It wasn’t immediately clear if the two fat@lities were
people on the plane or on the ground.
Surveillance footage from a nearby building shows the harrowing moment
the plane crashed at high speed into the roof of the factory, setting off a
huge plume of flames and black smoke.
Officials are investigating what caused the wreck.
Airport operations worker Chris Villalobos said the pilot of the plane
told air traffic control he was going to turn around to make an emergency
landing before the crash. He didn’t say what the issue prompting the emergency
landing was.
🚨BREAKING: A plane has crashed into a warehouse near Fullerton Airport in California. Casualties reported, and the fire department is on a 4-alarm response.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 2, 2025
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