A 12-year veteran of the Anaheim Police Department and his girlfriend, an officer with the Simi Valley Police Department, were killed when the plane they were in crashed on takeoff from an Arizona airstrip, according to a news report.
Anaheim Officer Brian W. Hayes, 35, and Simi Valley Officer Nicole Anderson, 32, were returning to Orange County from a vacation in Winslow, Arizona, when the incident occurred. According to another pilot who witnessed the crash, Hayes was piloting the plane during takeoff when it rocked back and forth, rolled, and then hit the ground upside down. Both Hayes and Anderson died at the scene.
The cause of the crash is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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