GALT — A twin-engine airplane crashed in an orchard in Sacramento County on Sunday, killing two males on board, authorities mentioned.
The Beechcraft Baron 58 went down shortly earlier than 9 a.m. Sunday in a marshy space at an almond orchard close to Galt, south of Sacramento, authorities mentioned.
Firefighters needed to wade and swim to succeed in the airplane, authorities mentioned.
Two males had been pronounced useless on the scene. The county coroner’s workplace recognized them as Kenneth Mueller, 56, of El Dorado Hills and 68-year-old Richard Conte of Orangevale.
The airplane went down lower than 20 minutes after taking off from Tracy Municipal Airport and had made earlier stops at San Andreas and Modesto earlier than the final flight, the Sacramento Bee reported, citing flight monitoring service FlightAware.
The six-seat airplane was owned by a Sacramento regulation agency that used it to take attorneys and purchasers across the space, in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration data cited by the Bee.
Conte was a pilot examiner and managed plane for the agency and Mueller was licensed to fly, the paper mentioned, citing on-line data.
The FAA and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board will examine the crash.