Plane strikes KFI radio tower, killing 2
 

The Associated Press
Sunday, December 19, 2004

A small plane crashed this morning into a radio station tower in La Mirada,
killing two people aboard and temporarily knocking the station off the air,
officials said.

The single-engine Cessna plane struck the KFI Radio tower about 9:49 a.m.
and the tower tumbled to the ground, said Andrea Hawkins, a dispatch
supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Television footage
showed the 900-foot tall red-and-white tower in pieces on the ground
surrounded by plane wreckage.

A man and woman were pronounced dead, Hawkins said. A small fire also was
extinguished.

KFI, a talk and news station, was off the air for about an hour following
the accident, said Leslie Lotto, an editor at the station.

A telephone call to the Federal Aviation Administration was not immediately
returned.

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