Pilot Told to Climb Before Plane Crash in San Diego Suburb

Pilot Told to Climb Before Plane Crash in San Diego Suburb
A twin-engine plane crashed in a residential neighborhood in Santee, Calif., Oct. 11. Tina Deng/The Epoch Times
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The air traffic controller repeated the warnings to the pilot more than a half-dozen times. Stop drifting, keep on course and a chilling, urgent plea: “Low altitude alert, climb immediately, climb the airplane.”

Instead, the twin-engine plane plowed into a San Diego suburb, killing the pilot and a delivery driver on the ground and burning homes. Now, federal investigators must try to figure out what caused the crash that left a shocked and damaged neighborhood.