A small plane veered off the runway at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona on Monday afternoon after part of its landing gear failed, causing it to crash into a parked business jet on a tarmac, killing one person and injuring three others, the authorities said.
The plane that veered off the runway, a Learjet 35A, belonged to the Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil, who was not on board, his lawyer Worrick Robinson IV said in a news release.
The crash happened at about 2:45 p.m., when the Learjet that had taken off from Austin, Tex., landed and then collided with a larger Gulfstream 200 business jet that had been parked on private property near the runway, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The Learjet’s left main gear failed as it landed, said Kelli Kuester, the aviation planning and outreach coordinator for the Scottsdale Airport.
One person was dead at the scene, two others were taken to local trauma centers in critical condition and another was taken to a hospital in stable condition, Capt. Dave Folio of the Scottsdale Fire Department said at a news conference. One person refused treatment.
All flights were paused and runways were shut down. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the episode.
Officials would not immediately release the names of the five people involved in the accident or say which plane they had been on. Mr. Robinson, the spokesman for Mr. Neil, said that two pilots and two passengers had been on board the plane. “More specific details regarding the collision are not available as this is a rapidly evolving situation,” Mr. Robinson said.
This collision came after a series of aviation disasters across the country in recent weeks.
In late January, a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet collided outside Washington, killing all 67 people on board those flights. Seven people were killed after a plane crashed near a shopping center in Philadelphia on Jan. 31. Ten people were killed in another plane crash in Alaska last Thursday on its way to Nome, Alaska.
Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.
