A Cesna 310 (designed to hold 4-7 people) registered out of Santa Clara took off from the Palo Alto Airport just before 7:54 a.m. on February 17, 2010. It was heading to Hawthorne, in Southern California. Witnesses told KGO-TV that the pilot veered in the wrong direction after takeoff, heading over the City of East Palo Alto.
One witness told KTVU news that the pilot was a high ranking executive with Tesla Motors, which makes electric cars.
The plan initially impacted the street, then slid into a two-story home housing a day care center was hit by the plane and burst into fire. One witness reported that there were children in the building at the time. Incredibly, none were injured.
You can listen to emergency crews as they deal with the emergency on FireDispatch Click on Tac-15.
Walkup lawyers handle aviation lawsuits, and our past cases have involved helicopter crash lawsuits and plan crash lawsuits with settlements in the range of $2-3 million.
