2 dead, 1 hurt in Truckee airplane crash
Two people died July 17 in a plane crash outside of Truckee airport. Photo/Provided
Update 7:38pm:
By Jordan Cutler-Tietjen, Sacramento Bee
Two victims have died and another was transported to a hospital after a small private plane crashed in a meadow south of Truckee, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office tweeted.
Pilot Kenneth Whitall-Scherfee, 60, of Carmichael was identified as one of the dead by the sheriff’s office Tuesday afternoon.
Around 7:35a , a single-engine, four-passenger Navion-B plane crashed less than a mile from the Truckee-Tahoe Airport, said Sgt. Dave Hunt of the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. The debris field is located in the west of Highway 267 near Mercer Flats, said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Pacific Division.