JoshuaJMcCoy

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 22:34, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Re: Plane crashes into home in Yorba Linda, California

Hi JoshuaJMcCoy

Interesting story and I am glad there is footage.

Do we know why did the airplane crash?

We require a minimum of three paragraphs, the article should be expanded a little bit, perhaps with help of adding one more news outlet source also.

I would be glad to help with any of this.

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--Gryllida (talk) 23:37, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

One more question: Do you have any photos or videos that you took or the photos are by someone else? --Gryllida (talk) 23:44, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

If you do have some photos or videos please upload them here, and then add them to the article.

I would be glad to help with any of this process here or at the live chat via text if you are interested. --Gryllida (talk) 23:57, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Question

Hi Gryllida, the reason for the plane crash appears to be unknown, but my neighbor says the plane was on fire before the crash, so something had already gone quite wrong. I live less than a mile from where it happened, heard the plane going down, followed by the impact, and feat the impact like a small earthquake. I the first thing I saw was a plume of smoke.

I don't have any footage or photos I took myself, but some interesting stuff was uploaded to twitter that shows the scene. (I didn't want to go get in the way) I should probably just use all the uploaded material, and the records I found related to the plane's registration number since my experience is not all that interesting.

--JoshuaJMcCoy (talk) 03:37, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

OK, I'd add "a local resident reported seeing the plane on fire before the crash" to the article and "my neighbor says the plane was on fire before the crash, so something had already gone quite wrong." on the talk page of the article. It is a good addition.

Do we know how many people died?

If you can walk to the place and take a couple photos they would be great to add to the article also. We can't publish photos from twitter unless the photographer permits, this adds delay while we wait for the photographers to reply, while yours would be readily available to upload.

Thanks for the story again. :) When you think it is ready please do not forget to submit it to review. Gryllida (talk) 05:00, 4 February 2019 (UTC)