Crime & Safety
2 Injured When Remote-Controlled Plane Crashes Into Porch
The crash came as the annual Watsonville Municipal Airport Open House was being held.
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — Two people were injured when a remote-controlled airplane crashed into a porch near Watsonville on Saturday.
The crash came as the annual Watsonville Municipal Airport Open House was being held, which featured a range of events including the "Fire in the Sky" air show.
The plane crashed at about 7 p.m. into a house in the 300 block of Buena Vista Drive, according to the the Santa Cruz County Fire Department.
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The property is just north of the airport in an unincorporated area of Santa Cruz County, just outside the Watsonville city limits.
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office said in a statement late Saturday on Facebook that the plane was "large" and that the two adults who were injured were taken to a hospital.
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Images shared by the sheriff's office showed a hole in a section of a wooden porch with wired components and the shattered fragments of a red and white RC plane resting in and around it.
A spokesperson for the sheriff's office did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
A spokesperson for the Watsonville Municipal Airport did not respond to a request for comment.
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