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CARLSBAD -Two North County residents were among the victims in yesterday's crash of two light planes near Mc Clellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, authorities said today.
Andreas Pelzer, 32, and Tamara Wilder, 37, who were both from Vista and George Randall, 57, of Springfield, Oregon died when the aircraft collided and crashed into open fields, said San Diego County Medical Examiner Sal Rodriguez.
Randall was the pilot of a single-engine Mooney MO-20. Wilder and Pelzer were the occupants of a twin-propeller Beechcraft Duchess, but it wasn't clear which of them was at the controls, he said.
The planes collided and crashed to the ground about a mile northwest of Mc Clellan-Palomar Airport shortly before 1 p.m., police and aviation officials said. No one on the ground was hurt.
One of the planes had just taken off and was veering right when the other plane crossed its path from the right, according to Jerry Snyder of the Federal Aviation Administration.
One of the planes fell on a construction site near the intersection of Cannon Road and Faraday Avenue. The other fell about a half-mile away on a ridge overlooking Faraday, just one mile northwest of the airport.
Witnesses told investigators that both four-seat planes were headed east when they collided, Carlsbad police information officer Lynn Diamond said.
Rodney Smith saw the accident from a nearby construction site. He said he watched the planes close in on each other and thought, ``Wow, they're awful close.''
``And then, all of the sudden, they were right on top of each other, and then there was a white puff of smoke, and then they both started falling,'' the laborer told KNSD-TV.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators today began a probe into the accident, said NTSB spokesman Keith Holloway.
``The NTSB will be examining the wreckage and looking for any information from the site that may determine what caused this accident,'' Holloway said.
Holloway said such investigations typically last nine months to a year to complete.
NTSB air safety investigators Howard Plagens told the San Diego Union- Tribune that the Beechraft had been cleared for takeoff and the Mooney was cleared to land when the collision occurred, although the Mooney had not yet begun its landing approach.