KTLA reports that a fiery airplane accident, in which four people were injured, occurred near a shopping mall in Camarillo on Saturday, April 9.
According to the article, the crash occurred at about 1:30 p.m. Witnesses to the crash stated they noticed a fixed-wing single engine Beechcraft Bonanza descending slowly, bursting into flames after it crashed into a storage facility located behind the Camarillo Outlet mall on Las Posas Road and Ventura Boulevard. The storage facility is less than a mile away from the Camarillo Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that the aircraft was on its final approach to the Camarillo Airport when the plane lost power. It took over 18 fire units to extinguish the fire that began after the airplane crashed into the storage facility. There were four passengers aboard the plane, and the article notes they were able to exit the aircraft on their own before firefighters arrived at the scene of the California aviation accident. Three of the passengers were reported to have suffered minor injuries, while one passenger sustained critical injuries. All were taken to a local hospital, where the severely injured passenger is listed to be in serious condition. Fire units worked through most of the afternoon to clean up the accident site, removing jet fuel and plane parts from the storage facility once the fire was extinguished.
FAA records state the aircraft was manufactured in 1964 and passed inspections recently. At the time the article was written, it was not known what caused the plane to crash.
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