PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Catalina Island plane crash kills 5 The twin-engine Beechcraft 95-B55 took off from Catalina Airport in Avalon around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Less than a minute later, it crashed about ...

LOS ANGELES - The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation into Tuesday night's plane crash on Catalina Island that left five people dead. Santa Monica Airport has since ...

Records show the aircraft took off to Catalina from the Santa Monica Airport earlier in the day, around 5:45 p.m. The National Weather Service reports there were no dense fog advisories at the time.

A small plane crashed just after take-off from the Catalina Airport Tuesday evening. Rescue crews found all five people on board dead at the crash site.

Tuesday night's deadly plane crash on Catalina Island is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. All five people on the plane- including a beloved local pilot - were killed.

Authorities say five people are dead after a small plane crashed on Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast.

The pilot of a Beechcraft 95 twin-engine plane with four passengers likely became disoriented after takeoff, other pilots ...

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner on Thursday identified three of the five people killed in a small plane crash on ...

The Beechcraft plane took off from Santa Monica Airport at 5:57 p.m. on Tuesday and landed at Catalina Airport at 6:20, according to Flight Aware. Safai’s wife told NBC4 that he was on board the ...

Five people were killed in a plane crash on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, according to officials. The small plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft 95, crashed just after 8 p.m. local ...