SANTA ANA – (INT) – Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board arrived Sunday night to examine the wreckage of a twin-engine private plane that crashed into a parking lot near the busy South Coast Plaza.

No one on the ground was hurt, but all five adults aboard the Cessna died on impact.

The plane was in the final minutes of a flight from Concord, California when the pilot declared a radio emergency.

The aircraft appeared to plummet from low altitude at a steep angle as it approached the John Wayne Airport less than 2-miles away. It impacted an unoccupied parked car, skidded a short distance and broke apart leaving a concentrated debris field.

There was no fire.

Wreckage was a few hundred feet from the entrance of a Staples store at 3861 South Bristol Street.

A Cessna 414 aircraft was registered to San Francisco's Category III Aviation Corp., according to Federal Aviation Administration records.

The victims were identified early Monday as the pilot Scott Shepherd, 53, of Diablo, Ca., the Orange County coroner’s office said, and has passengers Lara Shepherd, 42, of Diablo; Floria Hakimi, 62, of Danville; Navid Hakimi, 32, of Los Angeles; Nasim Ghanadan, 29, of Alamo. (Photos by Orange County Register)

Story Date: August 6, 2018