A small plane belonging to the singer of Mötley Crüe Vince Neil left the track of Scottsdale airport in Arizona on Monday afternoon and hit a parked throw, killing a person and injuring three others.
Learjet 35a left the track around 2:45 p.m., the local time after part of its landing equipment failed, which caused it to crash in a larger Gulfstream 200 plane which was parked nearby, According to the Federal Aviation Administration and local officials. Mr. Neil was not on board, said his lawyer World Robinson IV in a statement.
The plane had taken off from Austin, Tex.
One person had died on the scene, two others were taken to local trauma centers in critical condition and another was taken to hospital in a stable state, said Captain Dave Folio of the fire service of Scottsdale at a press conference. One person refused the treatment.
All thefts were interrupted and the tracks were closed. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the episode.
Officials would not immediately release the names of the five people involved in the accident or did not say on which plane they had been. Mr. Robinson, Mr. Neil’s spokesman, said that two pilots and two passengers were on the plane. “More specific details concerning the collision are not available because it is a rapid development situation,” said Robinson.
This collision has intervened after a series of aeronautical disasters across the country in recent weeks.
At the end of January, a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines plane collided outside Washington, killing the 67 people on these planes. Seven people were killed after a plane crashed near a shopping center in Philadelphia on January 31. Ten people were killed in another plane crash in Alaska last Thursday on its way to Nome, Alaska.
Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.
