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Santa Monica Crash kills 2


What: Wingspan Inc Single engine Marchetti SF-260 aerobatic plane en route from Santa Monica Airport
Where: Santa Monica Airport at the west end of the runway
When: 5:05 p.m. Wednesday Jan 28
Who: The victims were Paulo Emanuele, general manager of the airliners.net website. and Martin Schaedel a consultant to FareCompare, an airline fare comparison.
Why: The plane departed Santa Monica Airport runway 21 and began a left turn for noise abatement, then turned back to the right descending at a 70-80 degree angle.The plane appeared to lose power and crash on the west end of the runway.

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