The single-engine 1988 Mooney
M-20L went down around 5:30 p.m. in a parking lot that serves a Costco
and a Target store in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood.
The
plane bounced while landing at nearby Montgomery Field, continued
westbound and went down, said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal
Aviation Administration.
However, helicopter pilot Vince
Carter said he had taken off from the field when he heard the pilot, in
apparently her last radio transmission, tell the control tower that she
had lost power on takeoff.
"She said she lost power and she was going down and that was it," he told KFMB-TV.
There was no immediate way to resolve the two reports.
The plane clipped the top of the Target store and knocked down a light pole, police Lt. Steve Behrendt said.
It
spun around and finally landed in the parking lot in a loading dock
area away from the main entrances, and no cars were there, city fire
spokesman Lee Swanson said.
The plane caught fire, but the flames were quickly doused. He said the passenger had serious burns and died at a hospital.
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