Two planes collided midair at a California airport on Thursday afternoon inflicting “a number of fatalities”, in response to officers.

The accident passed off on Thursday afternoon on the Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, California, a city of simply greater than 50,00zero folks situated on Monterey Bay roughly 50 miles south of San Jose.

“A number of businesses responded to Watsonville Municipal Airport after two planes trying to land collided. We’ve studies of a number of fatalities,” the Metropolis of Watsonville tweeted following the collision.

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The Federal Aviation Administration says {that a} single-engine Cessna 152 and a twin-engine Cessna 340 collided as their respective pilots had been on their remaining approaches into the airport.

Officers say that one individual was onboard the Cessna 152 and two had been within the Cessna 340, haven’t but recognized who they had been or in the event that they survived the crash. Nobody on the bottom on the web site of the collision reported any accidents, though the crash occurred simply yards away from a road lined with residential properties.

One of many planes seems to have crashed right into a hanger on the airport, whereas the opposite could possibly be seen in information video in a close-by subject.

Each the FAA and Nationwide Transportation Security Board have launched probes into the accident, whereas The California Freeway Patrol has closed roads across the web site of the crash.

The Watsonville Municipal Airport has simply two runways and doesn’t service any business flights.