REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA – Federal investigators responded Monday to a single-engine airplane cash that killed two people 10 miles north of Redlands, according to San Bernardino County authorities. The aircraft, a Yakovlev YAK-52, crashed around 12:50 p.m. after taking off from Redlands Airport. A preliminary report issued by the Federal Aviation Administration, a man and woman were on board at the time of the accident. Both were killed.

The Yakovlev aircraft was originally designed as a Soviet trainer, acrobatic aircraft. The plane was currently owned by a Riverside man, according to FAA registration records. Investigators with the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board visited the crash site Monday afternoon. The full investigation by all the agencies is pending.

When airplanes of any kind, commercial or private, crash, many agencies are involved in investigating what happened. The FAA, NTSB and local police will all be involved as this accident shows. Victims who have been injured in plane crashes, as well as those who have lost loved ones in these accidents, may feel overwhelmed by everything that follows the accident.

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