SAN DIEGO (KSWB/KUSI) – A tiny level crashed into a San Diego vicinity aboriginal Thursday morning, mounting aggregate homes and vehicles connected fire.
According to the San Diego Police Department, the incidental was reported conscionable earlier 4 a.m. successful the Murphy Canyon community. Families successful the vicinity person been evacuated.
Details stay constricted astatine this time. Authorities person not released accusation connected however galore radical were connected committee the aircraft, oregon if determination were immoderate injuries. The level model, however, is designed to transportation six to 8 people.
San Diego Police and different archetypal responders remained connected country arsenic the probe continued.
Residents were advised to debar the country portion authorities assessed the concern and secured the clang site.
It is not yet known what caused the level to spell down.
The FAA released the pursuing connection connected the incident:
"A Cessna 550 crashed adjacent Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport successful California, astir 3:45 a.m. section clip connected Thursday, May 22. The fig of radical connected committee is chartless astatine this time. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) volition investigate. The NSTB volition pb the probe and supply immoderate updates."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.