Pilot dies after small plane crash in Grass Valley following mayday call
KCRA 3
[{'start': '0.400', 'end': '3.203', 'text': "A MAY DAY.  MOMENTS BEFORE IMPACT.  THIS IS WHAT'S LEFT OF A SMALL  ENGINE PLANE, A 1977 CESSNA  CARDINAL, AFTER IT CRASHED WHILE  ATTEMPTING TO LAND AT THE NEVADA  COUNTY AIRPORT.  WE JUST SAID MAYDAY, MAYDAY,  MAYDAY.  ENGINE FAILURE.  AFTER HEARING THE DISTRESS CALL,  AIRPORT MANAGER KEVIN EDWARDS  RUSHED TO THE AREA AND FOUND THE  WRECKAGE.  THE PILOT, ROBERT LUND, KILLED  ON IMPACT.  WHEN YOU HEAR SOMETHING LIKE  THAT, YOU WANT TO RESPOND.  LUND CRASHED THE PLANE RIGHT  NEXT TO WHISPERING PINES LANE IN  A BUSINESS AREA.  GRASS VALLEY POLICE SAY THE  NEWCASTLE MAN TOOK OFF FROM  AUBURN AT 803 THURSDAY MORNING  AND HIT THE GROUND IN GRASS  VALLEY 17 MINUTES LATER AT 820.  WE WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVE THAT  MR. LUND, HAVING EXPERIENCED  SOME SORT OF EMERGENCY IN HIS  AIRCRAFT, DID EVERY COURAGEOUS  ACTION THAT HE COULD TO AVOID  POPULATED AREAS AND ROADWAYS AND  ULTIMATELY PERISHED, EDWARDS  SAYS BECAUSE OF THE WIND  DIRECTION, THEY INFORMED PILOTS  TO USE THE RUNWAY WHERE YOU FLY  OVER THE AIRPORT AND THEN TURN  TO APPROACH.  THAT'S WHEN THEY BELIEVE LUND'S  ENGINE FAILED.  THE PLANE'S FLIGHT PATH CAME  OVER THIS BUILDING, AND THEN HE  FLEW TOWARDS THESE PINE TREES,  CLIPPED THE TOP THAT YOU CAN SEE  RIGHT THERE, AND THEN CRASHED  DOWN BELOW ON WHISPERING PINES  LANE.  IT LOOKS LIKE A DEVIATED IN THIS  INSTANCE.  AND THEN THE ADSB LOST SIGNAL  THERE.  THAT'S WHERE HE WENT.  AND THIS IS WHERE.  YEAH.  PABLO VASQUEZ IS A PILOT WHO  LANDED AT THE AIRPORT ABOUT 30  MINUTES BEFORE LUND'S CRASH.  IT LOOKS LIKE HIS.  HE LOST THE ALTITUDE.  AND PROBABLY WHEN YOU CLIP THAT  TREE, THEN YOU YOU LOSE CONTROL  OF THE AIRCRAFT.  NOW, THE FAA AND NTSB ARE  INVESTIGATING WHY LUND'S  AIRCRAFT HAD ENGINE FAILURE.  INVESTIGATORS SAY IT CLEARED A  MAINTENANCE CHECK IN APRIL.  THIS DEADLY CRASH, NOW LEAVING  THE GRASS VALLEY FLYING  COMMUNITY SHAKEN.  YOU DO WHAT YOU DO BECAUSE YOU  LOVE IT.  I COULD TELL MR. LUND DID THE  SAME THING.  HE WAS DOING WHAT HE DID.  HE LOVED WHAT HE WAS DOING.  IN GRASS VALLEY.  MICHELLE BANDUR KCRA THREE NEWS.  THE NTSB IS BRINGING IN A BIGGER  TEAM OF AGENTS TOMORROW TO  INVESTIGATE WHAT CAUSED THE  ENGINE FAILURE.  LAW ENFORCEMENT WILL KEEP  WHISPERING PINES LANE"}]