Stuart Camenson News Today

A new FAA AC cautions against performing a straight-in approach to a nontowered airport when there are other aircraft in the pattern.

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Investigators reported that one plane, a Cessna 152, was practicing "touch-and-go landings" at the airport when a Cessna 340 came in to do a direct landing.

The preliminary report notes that the two pilots were in contact before the crash, with one pilot saying the other was going "pretty quick."

One pilot who died in a midair plane crash earlier this month has been identified as 32-year-old Stuart Camenson, a former San Ramon Valley High School student who grew up in Alamo.

Officials have identified the victims of last week's deadly mid-air collision between a twin-engine Cessna 340A and a Cessna 152 in Watsonville, California.

The three people who died in the collision were Carl Kruppa, Nannette Plett-Kruppa and Stuart Camenson, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office said.

Authorities on Monday identified three people killed along with a dog when two small planes collided while trying to land last week at a rural Northern California airport.

Two pilots and a passenger died in the collision Thursday afternoon at Watsonville Municipal Airport, east of Santa Cruz, authorities said.

Authorities have identified three people killed along with a dog when two small planes collided while trying to land last week at a rural California airport