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Two Dead Following Plane Crash In Ventura County

(Ventura County Fire Department Photo)
Two men died in a light plane crash in the eastern Santa Rosa Valley Sunday afternoon

Federal investigators are trying to figure out what led to a weekend plane crash in Ventura County which left two people dead.

A light plane plummeted out of the sky in eastern Ventura County, barely missing a house. The accident happened at about 3:30 Sunday afternoon, on the 2700 block of Marvella Court in the Santa Rosa Valley.

The plane crashed nose first into a horse corral.

Steve Swindle, with the Ventura County Fire Department, says no one on the ground was hurt. Residents put out a fire in the wreckage before firefighters reached the scene. Swindle says there was nothing they could do for the two men on board the aircraft.

The victim’s names haven’t been released yet.  There's no word yet on the plane's flight plans.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral. 
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