Published on Monday, February 08, 2010
By Redlands Daily Facts Staff Writer
An experimental aircraft crashed in the Santa Ana River near Mentone, killing the two passengers aboard.
The plane, a single-engine, experimental Yakovlev YAK52, went down just before 1 p.m. Monday in the Santa Ana River Wash, about 10 miles north of Redlands. The plane's two passengers - a man and a woman - have not yet been identified.
Jodi Miller, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, said emergency crews responded to the crash site after a witness saw the plane go down.
"The reporting parties state that he saw an aircraft in the area of the Santa Ana Creek doing aerobatics," Miller said. "It's my understanding that that's quite common in this area, for planes to perform aerobatics out here."
The plane lost altitude for an unknown reason and crashed, she said.
The plane departed from Redlands Airport and the pilot intended to return there, said Ian Gregor, communications manager for the Federal Aviation Administration
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