Crash die game host in plane show

Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Sign up! Already a Subscriber? Sign in. Terms of Service Privacy Policy. Back to homepage. Subscriber Login. Please subscribe to keep reading.

You can cancel at any time. Edit Close. Become a Member. Read Today's E-edition. Log In. My Membership. Share This. Share this. People are also reading….

At dusk, the search was still on for a third person who may have possibly been on board and who investigators presume is dead. The County Coroner's Office said they received reports from investigators that Tomarken indicated there were three passengers on board when he communicated with the tower shortly before the crash. However, other reports indicate that only the couple was on board on an Angel's Flight trip to pick up a patient in San Diego.

Meanwhile, news stations say they have a video tape of the crash that Santa Monica police confiscated from a group of Japanese tourists shortly after the tragedy. The plane -- which investigators say Peter Tomarken was piloting -- circled around over the ocean eight minutes after taking off from Santa Monica Airport. Tomarken called back to Santa Monica Airport saying he needed to make an emergency landing, airport officials said.

Tomarken became a TV personality in the s as the host of game shows such as the popular Press Your Luck, which ran from to Tomarken departed Santa Monica Airport with his wife at about a.

Shortly after takeoff, the plane reportedly experienced engine trouble and began to turn back, airport officials said. The plane had flown about seven miles northwest of the Santa Monica Airport when Tomarken contacted the airport radio control tower and requested clearance for an emergency landing, Trimborn said.

Airport control tower operators cleared Tomarken to land and cleared the runway for the landing, but the plane never made it back to the airport, he said. The plane crashed into Santa Monica Bay at about a. I was really shocked. A few hours after the crash, rescuers pulled the mostly intact aircraft out of the foot-deep water and later towed it onto the beach.