4 Local Men Killed in Plane Crash
Four South Bay residents on a holiday weekend sightseeing tour died in the crash of their light plane in northern Arizona, authorities said this week.
Spokesmen in the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office said no flight plan had been filed, but documents found in the wreckage showed they had flown out of Torrance, en route to Laughlin, Nev.; Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah, and the south rim of the Grand Canyon. They were to have returned to Torrance Monday night.
Art Morriston of the Federal Aviation Administration in Los Angeles said the single-engine plane went down in the Kaibab National Forest about 30 miles south of Fredonia, near the Arizona-Utah border. The victims were identified as Christopher Nelson Jones, 22, Timothy Robert Jones, 21, and Terry Dwayne Williams, 20, all of Torrance, and Davis Ross Bennett, 21, of Rolling Hills Estates. Jones was believed to have been the pilot, the sheriff’s office said.
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