Long Beach Airport Beechcraft King Air Plane Crash

A Beechcraft King Air plane crashed at Long Beach Airport on Wednesday. According to the report, five of the six passengers were killed. The lone survivor is seriously injured. The group were on their way to ski in Park City, Utah when the plane crashed along a runway at Long Beach Airport and burst into flames.

The pilot of the Beechcraft King Air was circling back to land when the plane slammed into the ground and came to rest in a grassy area nearby. Authorities don’t know what caused the crash.

Firefighters arrived within a minute to extinguish the flames and used special tools to pry and cut open the twisted wreckage. Four passengers and a pilot died.

The victims included local developers and a member of the city’s founding family. Among the dead were 44-year-old Long Beach real estate broker and cycling activist Mark Bixby; Long Beach real estate investor Thomas Fay Dean, 50; and his business partner Jeff Berger, said City Councilman Gary DeLong.

The pilot and a fifth victim have not been identified.

The lone survivor, 51-year-old Long Beach real estate executive Mike Jensen, remains in critical condition at Long Beach Memorial Hospital.