Arizona officials have revealed that a landing gear breakdown caused a private jet owned by Vince Neil, the lead singer of Mötley Crüe.
Three people were injured in a clash at Scottsdale airport. This includes the second pilot and Neil's girlfriend Rain Hannah and her friends. The fifth person on the parked jet refused to see a doctor. Neil wasn't on the plane.
“According to the initial report, the Learjet's left main landing device failed during landing, leading to a collision,” the city of Scottsdale said in a statement on its website. “Airport operations staff and paramedics at Scottsdale Fire Station 609 responded to the scene within a minute of the collision.”
A landing gear failure caused a private jet owned by Vince Neal, the lead singer of the Metre Crew on the top right, to crash into a private jet parked on Monday.
The video shows a speeding jet owned by Vince Neil Plow of Mötley Crüe in a parking lot
The wheels belonging to the rear jet are approximately 100 yards away from the crash sight. Fox 10 Phoenix.
The deceased pilot was appointed 78-year-old Joie Vitosky, the Scottsdale Police Department said. According to FAA Records, he was certified as a flight engineer from 1978 and a pilot from 2019.
Vitosky was originally from Okema, Oklahoma, and joined the Marines in his early 20s. He became a Marine Corps aviator and flew a helicopter in Vietnam in 1969, she said. After spending more than a decade with the Marines, he began flying Learjets.
She said he died doing what he loved and he would probably be happy to be able to go as he did. “His passion was flying,” she said.
Learjet hit the Gulf Coast, parked at 2:39pm local time, becoming one fatal. (Fox 10 Phoenix)
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She said the two share three children and four grandchildren.
Dramatic video footage pushes noses off the runway and barrels towards a larger, parked private jet, which is Israeli Aircraft Industry Gulfstream 200, and speeds towards concrete, before sliding off the runway. Shows a rear jet sliding along the runway at.
The uncontrollable rear jet then attacks the parked Gulf Coast side with force such that the front of the larger jet moves forward a few feet away.
The incident occurred at 2:39pm local time, the city said.
Watch: Video shows the aftermath of a crash involving an airplane belonging to Mötley Crüe's frontman Vincenil
“We are extremely grateful to the first responders of today's scene and the airport management staff, and to the staff of today's scene in the scene,” Scottsdale Airlines Director Gary P. Mascaro said in a statement. “We express our deepest sadness to those affected by this tragedy.”
Scottsdale Fire Captain Dave Folio said people were trapped in Neil's jet after the crash, but rescuers were able to free them from the wreckage. The person was transferred to a trauma center in a dangerous condition.
Hannah suffered from five broken ribs per TMZ. The two passengers also had dogs on the plane and survived the incident.
The two aircraft were separated by rescuers later Monday. Images from the scene show that the cockpit area of the Learjet almost completely fell to the left with a red tarp above it.
A witness who has worked with aviation for 35 years, Gordan Johnson told Fox 10 that he saw the front landing gear collapse and saw the jet slip from the runway on his left.
After landing at Scottsdale Airport on Monday, the plane drove off the runway and crashed into another plane, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. (@donniefitz2 via x)
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The plane was coming when it crashed from Austin, Texas. According to records reviewed by Fox News Digital, Jet is registered with Wyoming-based company Hollywood, Inc.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it is investigating the crash.
Scottsdale Airport announced that the runway had reopened at 10:38pm on Monday.
Fox News' Stepheny Price, Lorraine Taylor and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
