6 killed in plane crash returning to Phoenix from San Diego
(AP) The Coast Guard suspended the search Tuesday for the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into the ocean shortly after taking off from San Diego, killing all six people aboard.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it will continue working to determine why the Cessna 414 crashed Sunday, but it doesn’t expect to have any updates on the crash until it publishes its preliminary report about a month from now.
With the wreckage still resting under a couple hundred feet of water, the NTSB’s investigator isn’t even immediately traveling to where the plane crashed about 3 miles off the coast of Point Loma, a San Diego neighborhood that juts into the Pacific.
Authorities have not identified the people who died in the crash. The plane was scheduled to return to Arizona on Sunday — one day after it flew out to San Diego. A natural supplements company called Optimal Health Systems based in Pima, Arizona, said it sold the plane in 2023 to a group of individuals who are part of their small community.
Motorcyclist killed in wreck with dump truck
A 63-year-old motorcyclist was killed Monday afternoon in a crash with a Kenworth dump truck on the city’s southeast side, Tucson police said.
About 2:45 p.m., Frank David Campa, 63, passed a line of vehicles in the westbound curb lane of East Benson Highway at South Alvernon Way by riding on the shoulder to their right, eventually stopping next to the dump truck at the front of the line, Tucson police said in a news release.
He was struck when the light turned green and the driver of the dump truck, an unidentified 40-yer-old man, started to turn right onto northbound Alvernon, the release said.
Campa died soon after he arrived at the hospital.
The truck driver was not injured and investigators say impairment was not an issue.
“Unsafe overtaking on the right by the motorcyclist is the known contributing factor of the crash,” the release said.
— Arizona Daily Star
