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MARIPOSA COUNTY —
A Friday morning plane crash in Mariposa County has taken the life of one person.
Around 10:10 a.m. Mariposa County Sheriff deputies received word of a plane down near the Mariposa-Yosemite Airport off Highway 49. A Sheriff’s Office plane and a CHP helicopter were sent to investigate.
The officers eventually found the small private plane off northbound Hwy. 49.
Mariposa deputies and Search and Rescue personnel came to the crash site at about 11:45 a.m. Personnel confirmed there had been at least one death in the crash.
This scene is active and under investigation. FOX40 will update this story with more information once it becomes available.
Ruben Dominguez filed this report.
