Power failure may have caused jet to crash in San Diego
The Marine fighter plane that crashed into a residential San Diego neighborhood Monday had suffered power failure, a local member of Congress said today.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine), the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said an initial investigation has found no link to the structural problems that caused the F/A-18 fleet at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar to be grounded briefly in October.
Meanwhile, civilian and military retrieval specialists continued to comb the smoldering wreckage of a home in the University City neighborhood for a fourth resident thought to have been killed. Three bodies were retrieved Monday.
The medical examiner has made tentative identification of the three victims and is awaiting dental records. A mother, grandmother and two children were believed to have been in the house; the missing fourth victim is a 1-year-old child, officials said.
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--Richard Marosi and Tony Perry
Photo: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times
