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Crash landing at Carlsbad airport

What: Plane landing at McClellan-Palomar Airport
Where: plane crashed into a hillside about two miles southeast of the Carlsbad airport
When: 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning Sept. 28
Who: Pilot Giuseppe Puzzo. a 42-year-old resident of Lake Havasu, Ariz died of multiple blunt force injuries
Why: Puzzo missed his first attempted landing in foggy conditions and was performing a fly around for a second approach when the plane went down.

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