5 Dead As Planes Collide in Calif.

[Ghost in the Machine]

5 Dead As Planes Collide in Calif.
Published: 1/21/08, 2:25 AM EDT

CORONA, Calif. (AP) - Two private planes flying about a mile from an airport collided Sunday, killing five people and raining debris down on car dealerships below, authorities said.

Two people were killed from each plane, and the fifth was inside a Chevy dealership that was hit by wreckage, said Wayne Pollack of the National Transportation Safety Board.

The small Cessnas collided at 3:35 p.m. near the small Corona Municipal airport and a freeway in Riverside County, about 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles, FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said.
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"The smaller aircraft ... just disintegrated into pieces, maybe fifty pieces coming down," eyewitness Jeff Hardin told KABC-TV. "The other aircraft pretty much stayed intact and started spiraling down."

Eyewitness Hector Hernandez said he saw bodies falling from the sky.
"One of them crashed into the top of a Ford Mustang, and another one fell not too far behind that one on the parking lot," Hernandez told KCBS-TV.

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[RB TexLa]

1. I see small and commercial planes flying over my house all the time

thankfully they are high enough we don't hear them but low enough to make out the size. That ever happens a body would probably come right through my roof if it hit the house.

[fed-up]

3. for the third time in my life I am in flight path-yesterday was a few huge CG planes so low that I

thought I could almost see the pilots-not a daily occurance at least as the weather has to be just right for them to take the path over my house

previous house was in the flight path for fire bomber planes, one year there was at least a plane a day going overhead as it was a busy fire season

thank goodness for good pilots!

[orleans]

2. how horrible. i can't imagine being there and seeing that. n/t