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Authorities Identify Two Victims Of Plane Crash On South Coast

Authorities have released the names of two people who died in a plane crash on the South Coast this week.

John Wells and his wife Tara died Wednesday when the small experimental plane they were in crashed at Camarillo Airport.  They were from Salt Lake City.

Federal investigators are trying to determine what led to the crash, which happened with the plane apparently ended up short of the runway while landing.  The two were pronounced dead at the scene.

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.