[UPDATE 5/22] The Sheriff-Coroner’s office has identified the pilot as 38-year-old Tigran Garabedyan of Burbank. He was flying the plane solo at the time of the accident.
[ORIGINAL STORY] A plane crashed into the basketball courts at Ralph Dunlap Elementary School in Orcutt Wednesday morning, killing the pilot.
The explosive collision from the single-engine civilian aircraft hitting the concrete sparked a fire, which is now extinguished, according to Santa Barbara County Fire Chief Daniel Bertucelli. He said that more details about the crash and the victim are unknown at this time.