Two people aboard a small plane that crashed into two homes in Simi Valley, Calif., on Saturday were killed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Ventura County Fire Department.
Residents inside the two-story, single-family homes were evacuated without any injuries, the fire department said. The homes suffered structural and fire damage.
The identities of the victims were not released. The authorities revised the death toll after preliminarily reporting one person, the pilot, had died.
Video posted on social media by the fire department showed firefighters on a roof tending to a smoking area of one of the houses.
The plane, a single engine fixed-wing Van’s Aircraft RV-10, had departed from General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster and was heading to Camarillo Airport near the city of Thousand Oaks before it crashed around 2:10 p.m., the F.A.A. said.
Simi Valley is a city of 125,000 people about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Photos from the scene showed smoke billowing shortly after the crash and, later, a gaping hole in the roof of a structure.
“The plane was flying very low and attempted to gain altitude a couple of times but looked like it could not,” an X user, who posted a photo after the crash, said on social media.
Johnny Diaz contributed reporting.
Hank Sanders is a Times reporter and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers.
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