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‘Tragic loss’: 3 people killed aboard helicopter in Newport Beach crash are identified
By Hannah Fry
Jan 31, 2018 | 4:20 PM
Wreckage fills the scene where a helicopter crashed into a Newport Beach house in a gated community Tuesday afternoon. (KTLA)
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Three people killed when a helicopter crashed into a home in a gated neighborhood in Newport Beach on Tuesday have been identified, authorities said Wednesday.
Joseph Anthony Tena, 60, of Newport Beach, Kimberly Lynne Watzman, 45, of Santa Monica and Brian Reichelt, 56, of Hollywood, Fla., died in the crash, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Two other people were injured, authorities said.
Residents said a woman was in the kitchen of the home when the helicopter crashed, damaging a bedroom, but no one in the house was hurt.
Tena, Watzman and Reichelt were among four people aboard the Robinson R44 copter when it slammed into the home on Shearwater Place near Egret Court in the Bayview Terrace community, authorities said. Police responded to the crash at about 1:50 p.m.
The four-seat helicopter went down shortly after taking off from John Wayne Airport on its way to Catalina Island, according to Joshua Cawthra, a senior investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.
The pilot and two passengers were killed, Cawthra said.
A third passenger was seriously injured and was taken to Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana in critical but stable condition, hospital spokesman Jeff Corless said.
A person on the ground suffered minor injuries and was treated at a hospital and released, authorities said.
Authorities would not confirm Wednesday who was flying the helicopter.
Tena, nicknamed "Pepe," is the only person identified in the crash who had a pilot's license, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. He received his private license for helicopters in August 2014.
Watzman and Reichelt worked for the Standard chain of boutique hotels, which has locations in West Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles, a company representative said Wednesday.
Watzman was the general manager of the Standard hotel in West Hollywood. She had worked for the company for nearly 11 years.
Reichelt was the regional finance director for parent company Standard International since 2011.
"We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of our friends," said Amar Lalvani, chief executive of Standard International. "Our focus now is on supporting their loved ones and our team during this difficult time."
The FAA and NTSB are investigating the crash. Cawthra said no distress call was made from the helicopter before it went down.
FAA records show the copter was registered to Spitzer Helicopter LLC in Canyon Lake in Riverside County. Eric Spitzer of Spitzer Helicopter said he leased the R44 to Revolution Aviation, a flight school and touring company at John Wayne Airport.
Investigators have determined the flight was not part of a class or sightseeing tour, Cawthra said.
Revolution Aviation had been leasing the aircraft — one of 85 helicopters in Spitzer's fleet — since April 2016 and flew it regularly, he said.
Messages left with Revolution Aviation were not returned Tuesday and Wednesday.
The copter was manufactured in 2003 by Robinson Helicopter Co., based in Torrance. The family-owned company's two-seat R22 and four-seat R44 are popular among flight schools, police departments, sightseeing companies, ranchers and recreational pilots.
Bayview Terrace resident Paddi Faubion said Tuesday that she was in her home when she heard a helicopter rotor struggling to turn, as though the aircraft was losing power. She ran to her balcony and watched as the copter clipped the roof of a neighbor's home and slammed into the side of another, sending up a plume of dust.
"It was like a train hitting a wall," Faubion said. "You just knew something horrible had happened."
Several neighbors rushed to the copter's twisted wreckage, and two of them pulled out the pilot, Faubion said. Fuel spilled from the helicopter onto the street.
"I just put my hands on the side of the helicopter and prayed," Faubion said.
The Los Angeles Times and KTLA contributed to this report.
hannah.fry@latimes.com
Twitter: @HannahFryTCN
UPDATES:
4:20 p.m.: This article was updated throughout.
11:20 a.m.: This article was updated with the identity of the third person killed.
This article was originally published at 10:45 a.m.
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something I just noticed
The standard post 1/31. Helicopter crash with Standard crew was headed for Catalina.
http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-crash-update-20180131-story.html
Next day, 2/1 is the new story about Natalie Wood's death making Wagner the suspect
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/02/01/robert-wagner-now-person-interest-natalie-wood-death/
interesting planefag story from 5/14
www.newsweek.com/russia-searches-us-mysteriously-lost-world-war-two-924176
Comms? we found your plane…..
Russia Searches for U.S. Plane That Vanished Mysteriously in World War II
By Damien Sharkov On 5/14/18 at 10:11 AM
Mud flies as a U.S. Catalina flying boat lands at an airbase. Russian authorities believe they have found one such plane which had been lent to Moscow by the U.S.
Experts in Russia may have discovered the wreckage of a U.S.-made seaplane that was lost in a blaze of fire near the end of World War II, according to Moscow officials.
Drilling into the ground of Russia’s far eastern Primorye region, a team of regional and foreign experts believe they are about to unearth what is left of a PB1-Catalina flying boat that crashed off the Sea of Japan in 1945. Bits of the aircraft are ready to be age-tested, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Monday.
“The researchers were able to recover samples from the flying boat’s outer layer and a range of marked parts, and fragments of military uniform that were part of the flight parachute equipment,” said Nikolay Voskresenskiy, spokesman for Russia’s Pacific Fleet. The findings will undergo forensic testing to determine if they resemble the U.S.-made planes of the 1940s.
Whether the aircraft was shot down or crashed for other reasons, Voskresenskiy did not say. Soviet records show the plane collided with a hill in the nearby area, causing the crash and subsequent blast that violently scattered parts of the aircraft across the vicinity. What researchers know already is that the U.S.-made plane was not part of an American mission in the North Pacific.
The Russian fleet confirmed that the lost seaplane was likely piloted by one of their own operatives, after being given to Moscow by the U.S. military.
Related: Russia searches Sea of Japan for submarines lost during World War II
The wreckage is assumed to be the result of a crash in 1945 by Soviet Pacific Fleet’s reconnaissance force, which used the PB1-Catalina to run missions north of Japan. The plane is also known as a "flying boat" because of its ability to make amphibious landings at sea and in muddier waters closer to land.
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The Catalina seaplane was one of hundreds provided by the U.S. to the Soviet military during the war as part of a relief effort in the face of depleted capabilities, according to the Russian defense ministry. The so-called U.S. Lend-Lease Act allowed for Soviet, as well as British and Chinese, forces to receive American military kit as of 1941.
Attempts to recover the aircraft were made in 2005 and 2006, according to state news agency RIA Novosti, but neither was conclusive. The recovery of the Catalina plane is part of an effort by the Russian government to explore sites of suspected U.S.-made aircraft, with the help of American experts.
Although Soviet-U.S. relations before and after the war were tense, the deal meant Washington considered Soviet defense against the Nazis “vital to the defense of the United States.”
The Soviet resistance against Nazi Germany's advance in western Russia and Eastern Europe played a decisive role in the Allied victory. The Kremlin eventually declared war on Japan in the latter half of 1945, and hostilities lasted just over three weeks until Tokyo surrendered, following two U.S. nuclear strikes and a Soviet-backed counteroffensive in Manchuria.
Most Russians today believe the Soviet Union could have defeated Germany without Western help, and historians consider the lend-lease effort an important factor in the Red Army’s success.
The Soviet military’s most decorated officer, Georgy Zhukov, said in a 1966 televised interview that “the Americans gave us so many materials, without which we would not have been able to form our supplies and would not have been able to continue the war.” The interview only made it to air after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Update | Correction: This story has been updated to clarify that the Catalina was not a jet plane.
This one never gets old
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5355713/Adam-Schiff-spoofed-Russian-claim-nude-Trump-pic.html#ixzz56N0yXyk0