Steve Yamamoto of the Long Beach Fire Department confirmed to AOL News that five of the six passengers died in the crash. The sole survivor was taken to a hospital.
The Beechcraft King Air crashed just after takeoff from Long Beach Airport at about 10:30 a.m. PDT. Moments later, the plane was engulfed in flames, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor told AOL News today.
AP
The wreckage of a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air is shown where it crashed and burned on takeoff from the airport in Long Beach, Calif., on Wednesday.
"I just watched a plane take off right next to me and crash in a huge fireball at long beach airport," he wrote.
The plane is owned by Thomas Fay Dean, a California developer who owns a large portion of wetlands in the Long Beach area. Dean died in the crash, his spokesman, Mike Murchison, has confirmed to AOL News.
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