Five people on board a small airplane, including the pilot, died on Sunday when the aircraft mysteriously slammed into the parking lot of a California Staples, PEOPLE confirms.
“The plane looks like it came almost straight down into the ground. One car was destroyed. But the owner of that car was in the store shopping at the time,” Bommarito says. “Overall, it could’ve been worse. It wasn’t much devastation [on the ground] other than the actual plane crash.”
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Witnesses told theLos Angeles Timesthat there was no explosion when the plane hit the ground suddenly.
“We looked up to see the plane falling nose first,” Ella Pham, 20, said to the outlet. “We really didn’t think it was a plane at first due to no crashing noise, but as soon as we saw people running from across the street we went to go check it out … It was so heartbreaking just seeing the plane crumbled into pieces.”
Video shared on social media showed theplane dropping quickly to the ground, and photos from the scene showed the remains of the aircraft crumpled in the parking lot.
The cause of the crash is unknown and the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident.
Pacific Union officials remembered Lara, Ghanadan and Floria in a statement, according to KCBS.
Family and friends remembered Ghanadan in a series of Facebook tributes in the wake of her death.
source: people.com
