Two dead in California desert plane crash

Two people were killed on Thursday morning after a small plane crashed in the California desert near Hesperia. The aircraft went down off Summit Valley Road, north of Lake Arrowhead in San Bernardino County.

Emergency crews from the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District located the plane in a nose-down position approximately two to three miles from the Hesperia Airport. Photos from the scene showed the front of the aircraft heavily damaged.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has not yet released the identities of the victims or the specific type of aircraft involved. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, with the National Transportation Safety Board typically handling such fatal accidents to determine contributing factors.