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.
Details of the passengers were not immediately available.
Radar data from flight tracking website FlightAware shows just one business jet travelling from Las Vegas to French Valley at the time.Â
That plane circled once near the field before descending.
The sheriff's office in Riverside County, where the French Valley Airport is located, said officials responding to the crash located an aircraft fully engulfed in flames in a field and that six occupants were pronounced deceased at the scene.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, the FAA said.
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