PLANE CRASH KILLS 3 IN POWAY

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Update 12/30/12:  The Medical Examiner has released the names of the victims, all from Phoenix. They are William Arthur Stern Jr.,, 65, his wife, Jennifer Jane Stern, 53, and their daughter, Katelyn Jane Stern, 19,

December 29, 2012 (Lakeside) –All three occupants are dead following  a l plane that crashed this morning west of State Route 67 off Slaughterhouse Canyon Road in Poway, IPN reports.

According to ECM news partner 10 News, the home-built plane was a Lancair IV-P model that is no longer in production.  The plane had taken off from Montgomery Field in San Diego en route to Phoenix, Arizona, when it went down in the Sycamore Canyon Open Space Preserve.

The FAA is withholding the tail number from the aircraft pending notification of family. Cause of the crash is under investigation.


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