Ventura County Sheriff's Department

Location: 24 Krotona Road, Ojai, CA. 93023
Date & Time/ RB#: 12/10/2009 @ 1430 hrs

Unit Responsible: Ojai Police Department, Patrol / Investigations
National Transportation Safety Board
Federal Aviation Administration

Sheriff’s Deputies from the Ojai Police station were dispatched to investigate multiple reports of a small plane crash in the Ojai Valley. The callers gave various locations for deputies to check before locating the plane wreckage next to the residence at 24 Krotona Road, in the Krotona Institute of Theosophy.

Deputies found a single engine small plane on an asphalt roadway, occupied by two males. Both males were killed as a result of the impact. Numerous resources from the Ventura Sheriff’s Department, Ventura County Fire Department, Life Line Ambulance, California Highway Patrol and the F.A.A. responded to the scene of the accident to render aid and initiate investigations. Members of the Ventura County Fire Department extricated the two victims from the wreckage before releasing them to the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office. The victims’ identities are being withheld pending proper notification by the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Witnesses reported the plane appeared to have some mechanical problems and difficulty maintaining altitude. No structures were damaged and no additional victims were located as a result of the crash.
The plane wreckage will remain at the crash site until tomorrow morning, when investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (N.T.S.B.) and Federal Aviation Administration (F.A.A.) will return to continue their investigations.