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Three Injured in Small Jet Crash in San Bernardino County
UPLAND, June 25, 2006 - A small jet crashed near a San Bernardino County airport, injuring the three people aboard and igniting a three-acre brush fire, officials said Sunday.
The twin-engine Citation crashed about 10:30 p.m. Saturday in an open field outside Cable Airport in Upland, said Suzanne Cable, a fire division chief.
The two men and one woman in the plane, whose names were not released, were transferred to hospitals and being treated for burns. One person was airlifted to University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center and remains in critical condition, Cable said.
The pilot of the twin jet engine private plane reported engine trouble, then skidded off the runway.
CHP officers at a nearby sobriety checkpoint and other bystanders in the area ran to help.
"As we're getting the ladder up and over to try and help these people, I then could see them coming out of basically flames and fire and just walking right through this," said CHP Officer Brad Denham.
"As they approached, they weren't that far away from us coming through the flames, you could just see they were just extremely badly burned," he said.
Firefighters had doused the blaze by Sunday morning.
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board are still investigating the cause of the crash, Cable said.
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