the national transportation safety board the ntsp for friday's update air safety investigator fabian salazar addressing questions about the uncontrolled airport watsonville municipal is without an air traffic control tower or specialists guiding planes the aircraft people in traffic pattern will communicate through the common traffic advisory frequency. are working to get the radio communications that we're occurring at that day audio link to the planes tail numbers show the pilots work communicating just before the collision. philosophy princesses 740 straight in 204 south looking for traffic on left base. yeah, i see you're behind me. going to go around then because you're coming at me pretty quick man moments later everybody. please be advised there. it's an accident towards the runway 2-0. please be advised watsonville the first accident of its kind in at least a decade according to airport officials the single engine, cessna 152 with one person on board crashed into a field the second plane a twin engine, cessna 340 carrying two people in a dog flew into a hanger. the immediate aftermat

the national transportation safety board the ntsp for friday's update air safety investigator fabian salazar addressing questions about the uncontrolled airport watsonville municipal is without an air traffic control tower or specialists guiding planes the aircraft people in traffic pattern will communicate through the common traffic advisory frequency. are working to get the radio communications that we're occurring at that day audio link to the planes tail numbers show the pilots work communicating just before the collision. philosophy princesses 740 straight in 204 south looking for traffic on left base. yeah, i see you're behind me. going to go around then because you're coming at me pretty quick man moments later everybody. please be advised there. it's an accident towards the runway 2-0. please be advised watsonville the first accident of its kind in at least a decade according to airport officials the single engine, cessna 152 with one person on board crashed into a field the second plane a twin engine, cessna 340 carrying two people in a dog flew into a hanger. the immediate aftermat

gathering factual evidence, ntsb aviation safety investigator, fabian salazar says experts will piece together what led to the fatal collision. we're going to look into the man machine and the environment as we continue with this investigation. weather is absolutely going to be something that we will look into it. >> on surveillance video, you can see the planes preparing to land at the airport. seconds later, it appears to plummet to the ground as witnesses look on. another angle captures the aftermath of the second plane hitting the ground. a fiery explosion and a plume of thick black smoke. it's a it's a small community. and there are people here that certainly are grieving >> everyone is doing everything they can to assist us. we're very much a saddened by this event. the coroner has not released the identity of the 3 people that were killed in the crash. >> and the ntsb says it will take 14 days to get a preliminary report. but the exact cause of what happened may take up to a year reporting here in watsonville, justin campbell kron. 4 news. >> happening now, redwood city police

gathering factual evidence, ntsb aviation safety investigator, fabian salazar says experts will piece together what led to the fatal collision. we're going to look into the man machine and the environment as we continue with this investigation. weather is absolutely going to be something that we will look into on surveillance video. you can see the planes preparing to land at the airport. seconds later, it appears to plummet to the ground as witnesses look on another angle captures the aftermath of the second plane hitting the ground. a fiery explosion and a plume of thick black smoke. it's a it's a small community. and there are people here that certainly are grieving. >> everyone is doing everything they can to assist us. we're very much a saddened by this event. >> now, the coroner has not released the identity of the 3 people that were killed in this accident. and the ntsb is saying that the preliminary report will take up to 14 days, but the exact cause that could take a year. >> just and i see the wreckage behind you and i know the airport was shut down immediately after this cr

. >> of the scenes, ntsb aviation safety investigator, fabian salazar on what happens next as experts piece together the chain of events that led to the fatal collision of 2 small planes at the watsonville airport captured on surveillance video. you can see one of the planes preparing to land at the airport. seconds later, it appears to plummet to the ground as witnesses look on another angle captures the aftermath of the second plane hitting the ground. a fiery explosion and a plume of thick black smoke will be conducting witness interviews. >> and then afterwards, we will recover the aircraft to a secure facility where we will continue our factual investigation and gathering stage. >> plus, pull radio communications from both pilots to see what was being said. everyone involved in this midair collision died. one person on the single engine cessna 2 people and a dog on the cessna 3.40, ntsb officials say that they will look at person machine and environment to determine the cause of this crash. we hearl from the airport director about how this is a tight community and that everyone i

gathering factual evidence, ntsb aviation safety investigator, fabian salazar says experts will piece together what led to the fatal collision. we're going to look into the man machine and the environment as we continue with this investigation. weather is absolutely going to be something that we will look into on surveillance video. you can see the planes preparing to land at the airport. seconds later, it appears to plummet to the ground as witnesses look on. another angle captures the aftermath of the second plane hitting the ground. a fiery explosion and a plume of thick black smoke. it's a it's a small community. and there are people here that certainly are grieving everyone is doing everything they can to assist us. >> we're very much a saddened by this event. the coroner has not released the identity of the 3 people that were killed in the crash. >> and the ntsb says it will take 14 days to get a preliminary report. but the exact cause of what happened may take up to a year reporting here in watsonville, justin campbell kron. 4 news. >> in the east bay, a driver was killed along