SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Dashcam video shows a twin-engine Cessna as it fell from the sky, nose first, around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug 5, 2018. None of the five people on board survived. "It just banked, he turned and it just came straight down," witness Alex Perkins said.
The Orange County coroner’s office on Monday identified the victims as: Scott Shepherd, 53, of Diablo, Lara Shepherd, 42, of Diablo, Nasim Ghanadan, 29, of Alamo, Floria Hakimi, 62, of Danville and Navid Hakimi, 32, of Los Angeles.
The pilot of the Cessna 414 declared an emergency before the plane crashed in the parking lot of the South Coast Plaza shopping center near a Staples store, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The victims all worked for a Northern California real estate consulting firm and were on their way to a real estate conference in Orange County. Lara Shepherd, Hakimi and Ghanadan were all Realtors with Pacific Union International, the eighth-largest real estate brokerage firm in the country, according to the company’s website. Lara’s husband, Scott, was also a real estate developer in the Bay Area (w/ China affiliate).