Scottsdale plane crash: At least one dead after Motley Crue lead singer’s jet crashes in Arizona

At least one person was killed and three others injured when a business jet hit owned Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil crashed into a parked jet at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona.

The Learjet veered off the runway as it landed and hit a Gulfstream jet that was parked on private property, according to Kelli Kuester, aviation planning and outreach coordinator at the Scottsdale Airport.

It appeared that the primary landing gear of the arriving jet failed, she said.

Kuester said four people were on the arriving jet, which had come from Austin, Texas, and one was in the parked plane. It is understood Neil was not aboard. According to a statement from Mötley Crüe to CBS, Neil’s girlfriend and a friend of hers were both on board and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Two people injured were taken to trauma centres and one was in stable condition at a hospital, Scottsdale Fire Department Captain Dave Folio said.

He said they were working to recover the body of the person killed.

“It’s certainly a tragedy that occurred,” Gary Mascaro, aviation director for Scottsdale Airport, said.

The airport is a popular hub for jets coming in and out of the Phoenix area, especially during big sports weekends like the Phoenix Open golf tournament, which attracts huge crowds just a few kilometres away.

The Scottsdale incident comes after three major US aviation disasters in the past two weeks.

A commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided near the nation’s capital on January 29, killing 67 people.

A medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia on January 31, killing the six people on board and another person on the ground.

And last week a small commuter plane crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome, killing all 10 people on board.