Los Angeles Man ID'd In Plane Crash

LOS ANGELES, CA — Four people aboard a plane that crashed in Orange County Sunday were identified as residents of the Bay Area, and one man was a resident of Los Angeles, the Orange County Coroner's Office reported Monday.

32-year-old Navid Hakami of Los Angeles, perished in the crash that also killed Nasim Ghanadan, 29, a Bay area realtor and resident of Alamo. The others were Scott Shepherd, 53 and Lara Shepherd, 42, both of Diablo, Calif.; and Floria Hakami, 62 of Danville, Calif.

The plane crashed just before 12:30 p.m. near JWA, according to the FAA and the Orange County Fire Authority. The aircraft, manufactured in 1973 according to the FAA, declared an emergency before crashing.

No one was hurt on the ground as the plane clipped an unoccupied car, but "fortunately, that person was inside the store shopping at the time of impact," Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Tony Bommarito said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the crash scene about 11 p.m. Sunday and left about two hours later to await daylight, a videographer reported from the scene. Santa Ana police officers guarded the cordoned-off crash scene.

The FAA is investigating, and the National Safety Transportation Board will determine the cause of the accident.

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City News Service contributed to this report/Photo courtesy of Ellaphant