Authorities have identified the four people killed in the crash of a small plane at a Riverside County airfield. A witness said the plane was taking off, got no more than a few feet off the ground and struck a fence. Eddie Rodriguez of La Mirada told KTLA-TV Channel 5 that the Rodriguezes were his brother and sister-in-law and that Mitchell was a friend. Eddie Rodriguez told KNBC-TV Channel 4 that his brother had invited him to go on the flight, which was on a friend’s plane. “I said I’ll take a rain-check on that and he said, `OK, OK,” he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 24, 2020 23:48 UTC