Small aircraft crashes in California, killing at least 2
A small aircraft has crashed in the city of Santee, California, the United States, killing at least two people and injuring two others.
Officials and local media said on Monday that at least two homes appeared to have been destroyed by an ensuing fire from the plane crash and several vehicles were burned, but firefighters were able to put out the fire before it spread to more houses.
"I felt the impact. Things shook. I didn't know if it was an earthquake or what," a woman who lived nearby told local media.
Another neighbor, named Jim Slaff, described the crash scene as a "war-zone".
He said his parents had luckily survived, but their pet had been killed.
Reports said at approximately 12:00 pm local time (19:00 GMT) on Monday the plane, identified as a C340 twin-engine Cessna, crashed down blocks away from a high school campus near San Diego.
The plane was headed from Montgomery Field in San Diego to Yuma, Arizona when it had found problems and tried to make an emergency landing at Gillespie Field, which is near the high school, when it crashed, according to NBC San Diego.
It was not immediately clear how many people were aboard the plane.
However, a cardiologist named Sugata Das, who worked for the Yuma Regional Medical Center and reportedly owned the plane, was identified as one of the victims on board it.
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department said due to the crash it cordoned off a few streets, adding that the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board would investigate the incident.
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