A small plane crashed into a residential San Diego neighborhood Thursday morning, leading to multiple fatalities.
Around 15 homes were set on fire as a result of the crash, and several blocks were evacuated. The San Diego Police Department confirmed that two people were killed and eight people were injured as a result.
“All the injuries that we treated were people who were treated at the evacuation center; there was no one transported on scene,” San Diego Fire-Rescue Assistant Chief Dan Eddy said at a press briefing.
Earlier Thursday, Eddy said there was a “direct hit to multiple homes” and described the neighborhood as “a gigantic debris field.”
“When it hit the street, as the jet fuel went down, it took out every single car that was on both sides of the street,” Eddy said. “You can see that every single car was burning down both sides of the street.”
The Cessna 550 aircraft crashed at about 3:45 a.m. near the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. San Diego officials have not released specifics, but the flight was coming from the Midwest.
Eddy noted it was very foggy at the time of the crash: “You could barely see in front of you.”
“I just walked it myself, and down the street itself, it looks like something from a movie,” Eddy said.
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“The good thing that we have was we have not transported anybody off scene from any of these areas here right now,” Eddy said. “And we’re searching through to make sure that nobody’s in any of those homes.”
The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation, according to the FAA.
