Report: Pilot struggled to increase, maintain altitude before crash The plane, a Cessna 414A, took off from San Diego and climbed to 1,600 feet when the air traffic controller instructed Baldwin ...

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Minutes earlier, as the plane flew over the coastline of San Diego, an air traffic controller instructed Baldwin to make a 180-degree left turn, the NTSB report states.

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Minutes later, at about 12:30 p.m., the business plane went down into the sea about two miles west of Point Loma, according to the NTSB. The report does not include a ruling on the cause of the crash.

Pilot, minutes from landing, headed out to sea instead, presumed dead after crash Single-engine Cessna is believed to have been destroyed following impact with Pacific Ocean about 470 miles off ...