TRUCKEE, Calif. - One person died and another person was critically injured after a single-engine plane crashed a few miles from Truckee Tahoe Airport on Monday.
The woman who died was 55-year-old Darla Sue Farnell of Tahoe City, said Placer County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Dena Erwin. The injured man is 70-year-old Ray Richard Farnell also of Tahoe City.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer described the aircraft as a Piper PA-46 Malibu. Sheriff's Capt. Ausnow says it went down near Martis Peak in a rugged area about six miles southeast of the airport.
It was unknown why the plane crashed.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident.
