Obituaries
Lake Elsinore Man Dies in Homemade Plane Crash
The plane hit a cell phone tower near Lake Matthews Sunday. A female passenger was ejected from the plane and sustained moderate injuries.
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The Riverside County coroner’s office released the name of the man killed when a small plane crashed into a cell phone tower near Lake Matthews.
He was 55-year-old William Dalo of Lake Elsinore, according to the coroner’s office.
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Firefighters responded to the downed aircraft in the 20300 block of Farley Avenue, east of Corona off Cajalco Road, at 12:14 p.m. Sunday, said Jody Hagemann of the Riverside County Fire Department.
The homemade plane crashed into a cell tower and much of the wreckage became entangled in the structure, Hagemann said. A woman was ejected from the plane and sustained moderate injuries. She was taken to a hospital.
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The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating the crash, the coroner’s office said.
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