“Investigations take several weeks to months to complete,” Federal Aviation Administration Elizabeth Isham wrote to the Sentinel in an email.
The 73-year-old pilot sustained moderate injuries, but was taken to the hospital where she is expected to recover. There were no other passengers aboard the aircraft.Cal Fire’s CZU unit was the lead agency at the incident and said it was unable to share the identity of the victim at this time.
The plane was planted in a slightly angled vertical position with its tail in the air and nose crunched, facedown in the green and yellow grass around the airport’s perimeter. Its wheels and wings were tangled up in wires from close-by power lines and the upper half of one of the wooden poles had been sheared off and launched across the street into a neighbor’s driveway.
Upon arriving at the scene, first responders asked the Sentinel to keep away from the chain link fence adjacent to the crash site for worries that it may have been electrified after also getting draped in the fallen lines.
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