Saturday night’s Sierra snowstorm caused a small plane to crash in California, killing two people, SF door the report said.

The plane crashed in Truckee near Glenn County Boulevard and Olympic Boulevard.

The accident occurred between the Truckee River and nearby railroad tracks, according to a statement from the Truckee Fire Department.

The Truckee Fire Protection District said they were responding to the scene of a plane crash Saturday night.

The cause of the crash is unclear and the identities of the victims have not been released.

Private plane crashes are a serious problem.according to business insiderThere are approximately 19 fatal accidents in private aviation every year. Most of these accidents occurred in the “general aviation industry”, and about 75% of them were due to pilot error, jitnux the report said.

More than half of all accidents involve single-engine aircraft, and the risk of death in a private jet accident is about one in 50.

Fortunately, the number of accidents decreased by 12.7% between 2000 and 2019.

In 2020, there were a total of 1,007 private jet accidents in the United States.

The number of accidents involving U.S.-registered civilian aircraft increased from 1,220 in 2021 to 1,277 in 2022, according to the National Safety Council.

However, the number of civil aviation fatalities dropped from 373 in 2021 to 358 in 2022.