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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Police in California arrested a man for allegedly stealing a small aircraft before crashing onto a beach and leaving the scene on Thursday. Deputies received a report of a small airplane landing “near or on a beach” in Half Moon Bay around 5 p.m., the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Police said officers found the aircraft, intact but unoccupied, on the sand south of Poplar Beach, which is about 30 miles (48.2 kilometers) south of San Francisco. Deputies located a man matching the description of a person seen landing the plane and walking away, police said. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft with the Palo Alto Police Department.
Persons: Luiz Gustavo Aires Organizations: — Police, San, San Mateo County Sheriff's, Police, San Mateo County Sheriff’s, Palo Alto Police Department Locations: Calif, California, San Mateo County, Poplar Beach, San Francisco, Miami, Redwood City, Palo Alto , California
The plane was registered to an Oakland-based company called Winged Wallabies, Inc., according to Federal Aviation Administration records. He said it was “traumatic” to know the plane he had spent so much time on had crashed with people on board. Like commercial aircraft, all home-built planes are required by the FAA to be inspected annually for air worthiness. Cozy aircraft have the same safety record as commercially built planes of similar size, said aeronautical engineer Marc Zeitlin, who consults with the National Transportation Safety Board on crash investigations involving Cozy aircraft, including this one. “You buy foam, you buy fiberglass, you buy metal parts from all the manufacturers.
Persons: Mark IV, Thane Ostroth, Ostroth, , I’ll, ” Ostroth, Marc Zeitlin, Zeitlin, , Zeitlen, Emma Willmer, John Antczak Organizations: ANGELES, Wallabies, Inc, Federal Aviation Administration, Authorities, Cozy, FAA, National Transportation Safety Board, Burnside Aerospace, San, San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, U.S . Coast Guard, San Mateo County Coroner’s, The National Transportation Safety Board, Associated Press Locations: California, San Francisco, Oakland, Thane, Australia, Michigan, Florida, Ross, San Mateo County, U.S, Los Angeles
Law enforcement at the scene of a shooting Monday in Half Moon Bay, Calif.At least seven people were killed in two related shootings in California on Monday, authorities said, two days after a separate mass shooting in the state killed 11 people. The related shootings Monday occurred at a mushroom farm and a trucking company near Half Moon Bay, a coastal city south of San Francisco, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
A Mercedes-Benz found buried in the backyard of a home in an affluent San Francisco-area community may have been put there for insurance fraud, Atherton police said Thursday. The 1991 500 SL car was found buried beneath 4 to 5 feet of earth as landscapers were doing a project at the home on Oct. 20. Law enforcement personnel investigate a car found buried in a San Francisco area backyard, on Oct. 21, 2022. “Detectives are still investigating this incident and it is believed the vehicle was possibly buried for insurance fraud purposes,” Atherton Police Chief Steven D. McCulley said in Thursday’s statement. Lew was convicted in 2000 of insurance fraud after he paid undercover agents $50,000 in cash and jewelry to sink his 56-foot yacht — worth $1.2 million, NBC Bay Area has reported.
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