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3 Tesla Motors employees killed in East Palo Alto plane crash
A twin-engine Cessna 310 registered to a Tesla Motors engineer crashed shortly after takeoff this morning in East Palo Alto, wrecking three homes and a day care center and killing all three Tesla employees on board. Miraculously, no one on the ground was injured.
"We are withholding their identities as we work with the relevant authorities to notify the families,'' Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Tesla is a small, tightly knit company, and this is a tragic day for us."
The San Mateo County coroner's office had not released the names of the crash victims early this afternoon.
The accident that occurred shortly before 8 a.m. caused a power outage to Palo Alto for much of the day, Shortly before 6 p.m., the lights went back on in downtown Palo Alto.
Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said the plane clipped a 100-foot power line on a PG&E high-tension transmission tower not too far away from the Palo Alto Airport runway, where it had taken off just before 8 a.m., headed for Hawthorne Municipal Airport in Southern California. The downed lines sparked a massive power outage across Palo Alto and surrounding areas.
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A twin-engine Cessna 310 registered to a Tesla Motors engineer crashed shortly after takeoff this morning in East Palo Alto, wrecking three homes and a day care center and killing all three Tesla employees on board. Miraculously, no one on the ground was injured.
"We are withholding their identities as we work with the relevant authorities to notify the families,'' Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Tesla is a small, tightly knit company, and this is a tragic day for us."
The San Mateo County coroner's office had not released the names of the crash victims early this afternoon.
The accident that occurred shortly before 8 a.m. caused a power outage to Palo Alto for much of the day, Shortly before 6 p.m., the lights went back on in downtown Palo Alto.
Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said the plane clipped a 100-foot power line on a PG&E high-tension transmission tower not too far away from the Palo Alto Airport runway, where it had taken off just before 8 a.m., headed for Hawthorne Municipal Airport in Southern California. The downed lines sparked a massive power outage across Palo Alto and surrounding areas.
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