Friday, December 24, 2004
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Small Plane Strikes KFI Radio Tower, Killing 2
LA MIRADA, Calif. -- A small plane crashed Sunday morning into a radio station tower, killing two people aboard and temporarily knocking the station off the air, officials said.
The single-engine Cessna plane struck the KFI Radio tower about 9:49 a.m. and the tower tumbled to the ground, said Andrea Hawkins, a dispatch supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Television footage showed the 900-foot tall red-and-white tower in pieces on the ground surrounded by plane wreckage.
A man and woman were pronounced dead, Hawkins said. A small fire also was extinguished.
KFI, a talk and news station, was off the air for about an hour following the accident, said Leslie Lotto, an editor at the station.
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