The crash of a single-engine aircraft just south of the Santa Monica Pier killed former Santa Monica Mayor and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rex Minter.
Santa Monica Fire Department Chief Danny Alvarez confirmed the pilot called the airport tower before the crash landing.
“We have a report that they did report some sort of emergency to the tower at Santa Monica Airport but we’re still gathering the details,” he said.“My friend saw a plane flying really low and was really confused,” Feenberg told ABC 7. “Then we saw it fly down there and we thought it would be a smooth landing but it hit the water and flipped over. It was pretty scary.”The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation, Nulty said.
Minter, who was a passenger in the plane, was born in 1927, elected to the Santa Monica City Council in 1955 and was mayor from 1963-67. Minter was also city attorney for Arcadia and a Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner. Minter was appointed as a Santa Monica Municipal Court judge by Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1971 and elevated to the Superior Court in upon court unification in 2000, retiring the following year.Minter graduated from Loyola University of Los Angeles and Loyola Law School.His wife is a member of the Ninety-Nines, the international organization of women pilots.
Flags in front of City Hall will be lowered to half-staff and a City Council meeting in 2023 will be adjourned in honor of Minter’s service.
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