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Cessna corporate jet crash near US airport kills six

By AAP Newswire

Jul 9, 2023

Ambulance — Officials say the six plane occupants were pronounced dead at the scene. -AP

All six people aboard a small corporate jet have died when the aircraft crashed and burned in a field near an airport outside Los Angeles, local and federal US authorities say.

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The aircraft, a Cessna C550 business jet, was travelling from Las Vegas and crashed in the city of Murrieta near French Valley Airport, about 136km south of Los Angeles, about 4.15am, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.