San Bernardino County firefighters responded to the scene extinguished a fire that had engulfed the aircraft. They managed to stop the flames from spreading to the rest of the hangar and the three helicopters that were being housed there.
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All three people inside the aircraft, the pilot and two passengers, were pronounced dead at the scene. They have not been identified.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the single-engine Beechcraft P35 crashed during departure from the airport around 6:40 a.m. It struck an Ontario police department hangar. No one inside the structure was injured.
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.
Two other small-plane crashes happened earlier this month near French Valley Airport in Riverside County.
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