http://www.venturacountystar.com/new...-collision-in/
Investigators seek cause of midair collision in Corona
By Greg Risling
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

... There were bodies falling out of the sky," witness Hector
Hernandez told KCBS-TV. "One of them crashed into the top of a
Ford Mustang, and another one fell not too far behind that one on
the parking lot."

In one of the car lots, the twisted hull of a plane rested against
two vehicles.

Witnesses told authorities that one of the planes slammed into the
other. One of the aircraft shattered on impact, while the other
spiraled to the ground, left mostly intact.

Authorities haven't released the planes' origins or destinations.
The crash occurred about a mile south of the Corona Municipal
Airport, which doesn't have a manned control tower.

The crash is the sixth in the area over the past 10 years.

...

The Riverside County Coroner's Office identified the dead as Scott
Gayle Lawrence, 55, of Cerritos; Paul Luther Carlson, 73, also of
Cerritos; Brandon William Johnson, 24, of Costa Mesa; Anthony Joel
Guzman, 20, of Hesperia; and Earl Smiddy, 58, of Moreno Valley.

Smiddy was crushed in the car dealership.




http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/s...escollide.html
... One of the planes was a Cessna 172 registered to William A.
Reinke of La Habra, according to aircraft databases. Reached at
his home Sunday night, Reinke declined to say who was flying his
plane or who might have been on board.

The second plane, a Cessna 150, is registered to Air Corona Inc.,
based in Dover, Del. Many plane owners register their aircraft in
Delaware even if they are not based there because of the state's
low taxes.