A small plane crashed blocks from a highschool campus close to San Diego on Monday (October 11), killing no less than two individuals and injuring two others, whereas additionally destroying houses, officers and native media mentioned.
At the least two houses appeared to have been destroyed by an ensuing fireplace, the town of Santee, California, the place the crash occurred, mentioned on Twitter.
“At roughly 12:00 pm at this time, a small twin engine aircraft crashed into two residential houses in Santee,” the tweet added.
The aircraft, a C340 twin-engine Cessna, was headed to Yuma, Arizona, from Montgomery Discipline in San Diego, however had points and was making an attempt to land at Gillespie Discipline, which is close to the highschool, when it crashed, in response to NBC San Diego. It was not instantly clear how many individuals have been on board the aircraft.
A number of automobiles have been burned, however firefighters have been in a position to put out the blaze earlier than it unfold to different homes. Two deaths have been confirmed and two different individuals have been taken to a hospital.
Santana Excessive College, positioned three blocks from the crash, mentioned on Twitter that each one its college students have been “safe.”
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Division mentioned a couple of streets have been closed due to the crash and that the Federal Aviation Administration and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board could be dealing with the probe into the incident.
Additional particulars on what led to the crash weren’t instantly accessible.
“It’s a reasonably brutal scene for our guys and we’re making an attempt to comb by it,” a deputy chief with the Santee Hearth Division mentioned.