A pilot was killed after two small-engine planes collided mid-air over Lancaster on Sunday afternoon, officials said.
Federal authorities said Sunday they were investigating the crash, which a Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman said happened around 12:50 p.m.
Firefighters arrived at the scene of the downed plane near 47th Street East and Avenue F around 1:20 p.m., said LA County Fire Captain Sheila Kelliher-Berkoh. The second plane that was brought down was near 60th Street East and Avenue G, Kelliher-Berkoh said.
One of the pilots was pronounced dead at the scene, but the other pilot was not injured, he said. Although details of the incident were not available Sunday afternoon, it appears that two planes collided above Lancaster, Kelliher-Berkoh said.
It was not known Sunday afternoon what caused the accident, he said.
There were no passengers on either flight.
The National Transportation Safety Board is “investigating the mid-air collision between a Yakovlev Yak-52 and a Nanchang CJ-6A near Lancaster,” it said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
The Yak-52 is a single-engine projectile designed in the 1970s in the Soviet Union. The CJ-6A was originally produced in the 1960s for the Chinese military. Both are known to be used in aerobatics.
City News Service contributed to this report.
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