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Pomona Crash


PICTURED: Piper PA-28
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Contact photographer Andrew McMenamin
What: PA-28 CHEROKEE #129AB en route from Brackett Airfield in La Verne
Where: NEAR POMONA, CA 2600 block of Pomona Boulevard
When: 03/14/2009 about 11:15 a.m. Saturday
Who: two on board, Chuck and Renee Shaffer
Why: Witnesses report hearing loud bangs just before the plane fell.

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