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Title: Plane down & Veg Fire - Big Bear Lake
Post by: Wrightwood on Nov 14, 06, 10:22:05 AM

Plane down in the water and smoke is reported.
Holcomb Valley area.

Structures threatened

Title: Re: Plane down & Veg Fire - Big Bear Lake
Post by: Wrightwood on Nov 14, 06, 10:25:41 AM

canceling the aircraft

Title: Re: Plane down & Veg Fire - Big Bear Lake
Post by: justme on Nov 14, 06, 10:26:47 AM

http://bigbearcountry.com/holcomb.html

Title: Re: Plane down & Veg Fire - Big Bear Lake
Post by: Wrightwood on Nov 14, 06, 10:26:57 AM

1 aircraft down
1 structure fully involved
100x100 spot
unable to make access to the aircraft

Title: Re: Plane down & Veg Fire - Big Bear Lake
Post by: Wrightwood on Nov 14, 06, 10:29:26 AM

Cancel all but two of the engines

Title: Re: Plane down & Veg Fire - Big Bear Lake
Post by: Wrightwood on Nov 14, 06, 10:34:04 AM

Fire is knocked down.
Plane was down near shore line - unkown type of aircraft that went down

Title: Re: Plane down & Veg Fire - Big Bear Lake
Post by: KWBoy on Nov 14, 06, 11:16:03 AM

It was a cessna 421 that crashed after take off from big bear and was going to head off to Las Vegas

Title: Re: Plane down & Veg Fire - Big Bear Lake
Post by: RobertW on Nov 15, 06, 11:03:02 AM

Three onboard fatalities.

Audio of the dispatch and incident can be found here:

http://socalmountains.com/e107_plugins/autogallery/autogallery.php?show=SCANNER%20AUDIO%2FNov_14_2006_Plane_Crash_in_Big_Bear.wmv&newwindow=1 (http://socalmountains.com/e107_plugins/autogallery/autogallery.php?show=SCANNER%20AUDIO%2FNov_14_2006_Plane_Crash_in_Big_Bear.wmv&newwindow=1)