Plane crash victims drowned
Three South Bay residents drowned when when their small plane crashed into the Newport Beach back bay, the Orange County Coroner's Office said today.
Pilot Chuck Chambers, a 58-year-old real estate agent from Torrance, Russ Urban, a 63-year-old retired schoolteacher from Rancho Palos Verdes, and Sean Kelly, 44, of Hermosa Beach died in the Sunday evening crash.
They were returning to Torrance from a surfing trip to Mexico when Chambers' Beechcraft Musketeer developed a fuel problem and crash landed in the water. The plane flipped over and came to rest upside down.
Autopsies determined each man suffered the same fate.
Pilot Chuck Chambers, a 58-year-old real estate agent from Torrance, Russ Urban, a 63-year-old retired schoolteacher from Rancho Palos Verdes, and Sean Kelly, 44, of Hermosa Beach died in the Sunday evening crash.
They were returning to Torrance from a surfing trip to Mexico when Chambers' Beechcraft Musketeer developed a fuel problem and crash landed in the water. The plane flipped over and came to rest upside down.
Autopsies determined each man suffered the same fate.
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