Pilot Killed in La Jolla Airplane Crash ID'd as Esteemed Physicist

Charred remains of a Cessna lie near the landing approach at French Valley Airport, in Murrieta, Calif., on July 8, 2023. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP

SAN DIEGO—Authorities Nov. 20 released the name of a Carlsbad physicist and experienced pilot who was killed last week when the light airplane he was flying crashed on a La Jolla hillside during a rainstorm.

Michael Salour, 74, was piloting a Cessna P210 Centurion from the San Francisco Bay Area to McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad on Nov. 15 evening when he was diverted to Montgomery Field due to inclement weather, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.