One person was killed and three others were injured after a small plane crashed this morning in a southeast Las Vegas Valley neighborhood.
The crash was reported about 8:15 a.m. on Morning Mauve Avenue, which is a residential street southeast of Silverado Ranch Boulevard and Bermuda Road.
Metro Police Lt. Joe Ojeda, with the police air support search and rescue team, said the four-seat Piper PA-32R aircraft took off from Henderson Executive Airport, which is about three miles away from where it crashed.
"It was taking off routinely and all of the sudden lost power," he said. "It appears from the trajectory that it attempted to land on the street".
A man -- one of two people sitting in the plane’s front seats -- was taken to St. Rose Dominican Hospitals Siena Campus, where he died. The other passengers were taken to University Medical Center with extensive traumatic injuries and burns, Ojeda said.
The occupants of the plane were two men and two women in their late 30s to mid 40s, he said. No one on the ground was injured.
Las Vegas Sun
