SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) — Authorities on Wednesday identified the man who died in an Oceanside plane crash earlier this week.
The victim who was the pilot of the plane has been identified as 58-year-old Raymond Allen Petty Jr. of Yorba Linda.
Petty was found dead on Tuesday morning after a plane crash that occurred the night before.
Dispatchers received a call shortly before 7:15 a.m., Tuesday from a woman reporting she saw the wreckage of a plane on a hillside near SR-76 and Canyon Drive, Oceanside police spokesman Tom Bussey said.
According to Oceanside police Petty was already dead upon their arrival and the passenger who survived had been waiting for over ten hours to be rescued.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration,say Petty and the other passenger took off in a single engine plane from Oceanside Airport on Monday night and crashed shortly after for unknown reasons into a nearby hill.
The survivor, whose name was withheld, was admitted to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla for treatment of severe injuries. His current condition is not known.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are continuing their investigation into the cause of the crash.
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