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Tijuana, Mexico – A small plane crash near the U.S.-Mexico border killed three American medical volunteers, authorities said Saturday.
The Beach Bonanza B36 aircraft left San Diego’s Brown Field Municipal Airport shortly after noon on Friday, and was attempting to land less than an hour later at a military airport near Ensenada, south of the Mexican border city of Tijuana, when it hit a factory wall, said Jaime Nieto, director of civil protection for Ensenada.
Dentist Merlin James Larson, 76, of Palm Desert, Calif.; nurse Brianne Nicole Shelton, 25, of San Marcos, Calif.; and pilot Robert McEneany, 57, of Las Vegas were killed, according to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
