Local news in brief : pilot dies in hillside crash of small plane
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The wreckage of a single-engine airplane that crashed in Angeles National Forest, killing the pilot, was discovered by authorities early Thursday. The Piper PA-28 piloted by Eugene Mac
Briggs, 48, of Antioch crashed Wednesday in the fog-shrouded terrain south of Placerita Canyon Road near Placerita Canyon State Park, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Dave Tellez said.
The wreckage was found about 4:15 a.m. Thursday, he said. Briggs, a physician, was en route from Northern California to Burbank Airport. He last made radio contact with authorities near
Castaic Lake about 5:25 p.m. Wednesday, Tellez said. Other aircraft in the area picked up the plane’s emergency transmission signal, and a sheriff’s search-and-rescue team began looking for
the plane about 9 p.m. The plane was found upside down but relatively intact on a brush-covered hillside near 4,636-foot Mendenhall Peak, the sheriff’s spokesman said. The crash is being
investigated by the Sheriff’s Department, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. The PA-28 is under study by the Federal Aviation Administration
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