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SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on a northern Nevada plane crash that killed two people (all times local):
1:50 p.m.
A police official says the crash of a single-engine airplane into a recreational vehicle park near the end of a Reno-Tahoe International Airport runway could have been a catastrophe.
Authorities said Wednesday that two people on the plane died in the Tuesday evening crash.
But Sparks police Lt. Pete Krall said that even though the plane crashed among parked RVs, including some with people in them, no one on the ground was killed or hurt.
Krall says fire damaged several trailers and vehicles on the ground.
A manager who witnessed the crash at the 164-space Rivers Edge RV Park referred calls about the crash to corporate owner Storz Management Co. in California.
Company president Andy Carey declined to comment.
The plane was a 1981 Beechcraft Bonanza registered to Venture Aviation Services in Reno. Efforts to reach company officials weren't immediately successful.
A team from the National Transportation Safety Board was investigating.
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12:40 p.m.
Authorities have now confirmed that the pilot and a passenger were killed in a small plane that crashed into an RV park as it approached Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
The Washoe County Medical Examiner and Coroner's office said Wednesday that 73-year-old John B. Brown and an unidentified passenger died at the scene of the plane crash on Tuesday evening.
There were no other injuries reported on the ground.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said Tuesday that the single-engine plane crashed for unknown reasons into the Rivers Edge RV Park in Sparks about a half-mile from the airport about 6:15 p.m.
Sparks police say the plane hit the ground nose first and caught fire. Some of the wreckage hit trailers and vehicles.
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12 a.m.
Officials say a small plane crashed into an RV park as it approached Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The condition of the pilot or anyone else who may have been aboard is unclear, but there were no injuries on the ground.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the single-engine plane crashed for unknown reasons into the Rivers Edge RV Park in Sparks about a half-mile from the airport about 6:15 p.m. Tuesday
Sparks police say the plane hit the ground nose first and caught fire. Some of the wreckage hit trailers and vehicles.
Sparks fire officials say everyone in the RV park has been accounted for and no one was hurt. The park has been evacuated because of smoke.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
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