Music band Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil’s plane on Monday collided into a parked plane in Arizona’s Scottsdale Airport killing one person while injuring four.
According to a spokesperson for Scottsdale Airport, Neil’s private jet was arriving from Austin, Texas, and veered off the runway into a parked jet. The arriving plane’s left main gear appeared to have failed upon landing, causing the collision.
In a statement released by Worrick Robinson said that Neil was not on board.
“At 2:39pm local time, a Learjet aircraft Model 35A owned by Vince Neil was attempting to land at the Scottsdale Airport. For reasons unknown at this time, the plane veered from the runway causing it to collide with another parked plane,” the statement read.
“On board Mr. Neil’s plane were two pilots and two passengers. Mr. Neil was not on the plane. Mr. Neil’s thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved, and he is grateful for the critical aid of all first responders assisting today,” it added.
However, according to a report in TMZ, the singer’s girlfriend, Rain, and one of her friends, were on the plane. The two were hospitalized.
The runway was shut down after the crash, which occurred around 2:30 p.m. local time. The Scottsdale Fire Department was on the scene with several trucks and had to extricate one person trapped in one of the planes.
The Gulfstream jet was stationed at the airport since January 31, according to flight records.
The crash was the latest in a series of aviation tragedies that have rocked the United States.
This incident follows two other major US aviation mishaps in the past eight days, a collision between a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter near Washington, DC, that killed 67 people on January 29 and a medical transport plane crash in Philadelphia on January 31, which claimed seven lives.