
It also sponsors and manages a small number of internships for local newspapers, online news publications and radio stations. As a chapter, the association represents Asian and Pacific Islander reporters in the Los Angeles area. Since 2016, he's worked at what would become the Southern California News Group, first as a digital editor for SCNG's San Gabriel Valley newspapers, then as a crime, cops and courts reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News.He's affiliated with the Asian American Journalists Association, Los Angeles chapter, for which he was elected a board member in 2019. He attended journalism school at Boston University. Josh Cain's interest in writing and reporting the news started as a kid growing up in Orange County, California. Officials haven’t said who was flying, or which of the men was the potential buyer.īut Seibold was the registered owner of plane, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. The report released Thursday is preliminary, and it could still take months for the agency to determine what caused the crash. Also killed was Robert Carty, 79, of Lake Havasu, Arizona. Among them were two local men: Stormie Seibold, 60, of Temecula, and Jimmy Fitzpatrick, 62, of Perris. Investigators said the force of the crash tore the plane’s right passenger door off from the fuselage.Īll three of the men inside died. Then the cabin of the plane hit the ground on its right side.

The aircraft’s right wing hit the ground first - investigators said they found scars on the ground left from the crash that contained fragments of the plane’s green light on its right side. The right side of the Beech A36 Bonanza slammed into the ground as the pilot attempted to land at the airport on May 1 just after 2 p.m., the National Transportation Safety Board said in their initial report on the crash. The three men who died when their small airplane crashed near Big Bear City Airport earlier this month were flying that day so that one of the men could inspect the aircraft before potentially buying it, crash investigators said on Thursday, May 18.
