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| Scott Frazier Watson (credit: CBS). He was the owner of the plane that crashed and killed him. Scott Frazier Watson has filed for patents to protect several inventions. |
SYLMAR, CA (CBSLA) —
Federal investigators will comb through the wreckage Monday of a small plane that crashed into a Sylmar field, killing the pilot.
Scott Frazier Watson, 55, of Marina Del Rey, was killed when his plane crashed into a field right alongside the 5 Freeway in Sylmar Sunday afternoon. The father of three was pronounced dead at the scene.
Several motorists on the freeway reportedly stopped and ran down the freeway to try to help the pilot before emergency services arrived. Traffic on the northbound 5 and 405 freeways ground to a slow crawl because the crash could be seen from the freeway.
Watson’s daughter, Katie, said her father had his pilot’s license for about 15 to 20 years and that he was returning home to the Van Nuys Airport from a weekend trip.
Watson, who was called by relatives as a computer genius who worked his way up to become head of technology for Disney Engineering, had made a mayday call for help, but it’s not known what was wrong with the plane.
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA will be on the scene Monday to look through the wreckage of the plane.
For being such a genius, he did not know that flying single engine planes is very dangerous. Why take such risks, buddy when you obviously have all the money in the world?
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The pilot of a small plane who died after the aircraft crashed in the Sylmar area on Sunday afternoon has been identified by the L.A. County coroner as a 55-year-old man.
Scott Watson of Marina Del Rey was the pilot who crashed in a field near the northbound 5 Freeway and Roxford Street, authorities said.
Preliminary information indicates that the single-engine Beechcraft BE33 crashed under unknown circumstances in the field located about 5 miles east of Van Nuys Airport around 1:45 p.m., according to Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The pilot, only identified as a man, was initially trapped in the wreckage but was later freed and declared dead at the scene, an LAFD alert stated.
Witnesses said it appeared that the pilot was trying to land along a nearby freeway just before crashing into the field.
Will Markgraf, who heard the deadly crash, said it sounded like fireworks going off or gunshots being fired. Once the plane was down, he said, several people ran over to the scene.
"There was a mass of people," he said. "There were about 30, 40 people just surrounding the crash site."
It appears that no one else was on board the plane, and no other injuries were reported, according to the Fire Department.
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident, Gregor said.
No other details were immediately available.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) —
Authorities say the pilot was killed when a small, single-engine aircraft crashed into a field near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.
Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey says the plane, a Beechcraft A320, went down shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday. Humphrey says the pilot, the only person on board, was killed.
No one on the ground was injured and no structures were damaged.
Cause of the crash was not immediately known and the pilot's identity was not released.
Humphrey says the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating.
The plane went down in an open field in Los Angeles' Sylmar neighborhood, in the northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley.
The pilot was described as an adult male.
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Patents by Inventor Scott Frazier Watson
Scott Frazier Watson has filed for patents to
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applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been
granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Narrative:The aircraft impacted open fields near Sylmar, California, north of Van Nuys Airport (KVNY). The aircraft sustained substantial damage and the sole pilot onboard was fatally injured.
Sources:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Pilot-killed-when-single-engine-plane-crashes-in-13150609.php
https://abc7.com/1-dead-after-small-plane-crashes-into-field-in-sylmar/3940928/
https://ktla.com/2018/08/12/pilot-dies-after-small-plane-crashes-in-sylmar-area-officials/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sylmar-los-angeles-small-airplane-crash-today-2018-08-12/
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/california/Plane-Crashes-Near-Freeway-Sylmar-490678141.html
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https://www.google.com/maps?oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&um=1&ie=UTF-8&fb=1&gl=us&entry=s&sa=X&ll=34.2990841,-118.4722968&z=13&ftid=0x80c28fe2fb4458e3:0x6b65c2e96a5fdff9&q=12600+Encinitas+Ave,+Sylmar,+CA+91342&gmm=CgIgAQ%3D%3D&ved=2ahUKEwi30_S5x-jcAhX4JDQIHawoDzwQ8gEwAHoECAsQAQ
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=136RM
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000713800L.html
| Date: | 12-AUG-2018 | |||||
| Time: | 13:45 LT | |||||
| Type: |  Beech A36TC Bonanza | |||||
| Owner/operator: | Private | |||||
| Registration: | N136RM | |||||
| C/n / msn: | EA97 | |||||
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 | |||||
| Other fatalities: | 0 | |||||
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial | |||||
| Location: | Sylmar, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, CA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown | |||||
| Nature: | Unknown | |||||
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