One person was killed when a small plane went down Saturday morning in Northern California’s Butte County.
The single‑engine Piper PA-22-150 with one occupant crashed on private property near Paradise Skypark Airport shortly before 10 a.m. local time on Feb. 28, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed to NTD News.
Fire crews and sheriff’s deputies arriving at the scene found one occupant on board, who was pronounced dead, according to local media citing Cal Fire’s Butte unit.
NTD News has contacted Cal Fire for additional details.
Officials have not released the person’s identity, and federal investigators said local authorities remain responsible for naming the victim and disclosing details about injuries or fatalities.
In a statement to NTD News, a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) spokesperson said the crash occurred around 10:02 a.m. PT under unknown circumstances and that “it is very early in the investigation, and limited information is available at this time.”
The spokesperson said an investigator was on scene Sunday to document the wreckage and that the plane will be moved to a secure facility for further examination.
In Southern Maryland, the lone occupant of an ultralight plane was discovered dead on Saturday, in the morning hours, after the plane went down in a heavily wooded area of St. Mary’s County.
On Thursday, a 61-year-old pilot was killed when a single-engine plane plunged into Beaver Lake near Rogers, Arkansas. Earlier in February, a veteran flight instructor and his wife died after their plane hit power lines in Texas, and four Tennessee residents died when a turboprop crashed near Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Other recent incidents have been less severe. A Piper PA-18 overturned on the ice covering a Maine lake on Feb. 20, leaving the pilot unscathed. The following day, a Cessna 177B went down in a remote stretch of eastern Arizona, injuring two occupants who were later reported to be in stable condition.