Small plane carrying six people crashes off the San Diego coast

Authorities are investigating aft a tiny level carrying six radical crashed disconnected the San Diego coast

Authorities were investigating Monday aft a tiny level carrying six radical crashed disconnected the San Diego coast.

The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed astatine astir 12:30 p.m. Sunday, not agelong aft it took off, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The level was bound for Phoenix, according to the formation tracking website Flightaware.com.

Searchers recovered a debris tract aboriginal Sunday astir 5 miles (8 kilometers) disconnected the seashore of Point Loma, a San Diego vicinity that juts into the Pacific, U.S. Coast Guard officials. The h2o successful the hunt country is astir 200 feet (61 meters) deep.

The Coast Guard said successful its archetypal quality merchandise Sunday that it was searching for the six radical connected board, whom it didn't identify.

A antheral who was retired surfing erstwhile the level crashed told NBC 7 successful San Diego that helium saw the level travel down astatine an angle, past ascent backmost into the clouds earlier diving again and crashing into the water.

“The adjacent clip helium came retired of the clouds, helium went consecutive into the water. But aft I saw this splash, astir six seconds later, it was dormant silent. I knew that they went successful the water, chemoreceptor first, astatine a precocious speed," Tyson Wislofsky said.

The clang comes little than 3 weeks aft a tiny Cessna crashed into a San Diego vicinity successful foggy weather and killed six people.

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