A small airplane veered off the runway at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona on Monday afternoon and struck a parked jet, killing one particular person and injuring three others.
The Learjet 35A veered off the runway at about 2:45 p.m. native time after a part of its touchdown gear failed, inflicting it to crash into a bigger Gulfstream 200 jet that was parked close by, in accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration and native officers. The Learjet belonged to Vince Neil, the Mötley Crüe singer, who was not on board, his lawyer Worrick Robinson IV stated in a press release.
The Learjet had taken off from Austin, Tex. Its left most important gear failed because it landed, stated Kelli Kuester, the aviation planning and outreach coordinator for Scottsdale Airport.
One particular person was lifeless on the scene, two others have been taken to native trauma facilities in important situation and one other was taken to a hospital in steady situation, Capt. Dave Folio of the Scottsdale Fireplace Division stated at a information convention. One particular person refused remedy.
All flights have been paused and runways have been shut down. The Nationwide Transportation Security Board is investigating the episode.
Officers wouldn’t instantly launch the names of the 5 folks concerned within the accident or say which airplane they’d been on. Mr. Robinson, the spokesman for Mr. Neil, stated that two pilots and two passengers had been on board the airplane. “Extra particular particulars relating to the collision are usually not obtainable as this can be a quickly evolving scenario,” Mr. Robinson stated.
This collision got here after a sequence of aviation disasters throughout the nation in latest weeks.
In late January, a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airways jet collided exterior Washington, killing all 67 folks on board these plane. Seven folks have been killed after a airplane crashed close to a shopping mall in Philadelphia on Jan. 31. Ten folks have been killed in one other airplane crash in Alaska final Thursday on its solution to Nome, Alaska.
Sheelagh McNeill contributed analysis.
