Tape Fails to Offer Clues to Crash That Killed 10
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LAS VEGAS — A tape recording of conversations between controllers and a pilot has shed no new light on the Feb. 19 crash of a private plane that killed 10 Las Vegans bound for John Wayne Airport.
Federal Aviation Administration officials played the tape Friday at a news conference at McCarran International Airport. The tape indicated no problems and ended with pilot Hassan Berro confirming that he was 4 miles east of Corona, Calif., and headed for John Wayne under visual flight rules.
The plane crashed moments later in heavy clouds, near the top of a 2,270-foot ridge in the Santa Ana Mountains.
Las Vegas Metro Police Officer Michael Cranson, his wife, their five children and Cranson’s sister-in-law and brother-in-law were killed along with the pilot.
The officer was taking his family on a trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles when the crash occurred.
The tape between Berro and controllers at Norton and Riverside indicated no problems and ended with the controller telling the pilot that radar service was terminated and the plane was to continue under VFR into the Orange County airport.
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