A small plane crashed into a residential San Diego neighborhood early Thursday morning, directly hitting one home and spreading debris and jet fuel over more than a dozen others, officials said.
The plane, a Cessna 550, crashed in Murphy Canyon near the Tierrasanta neighborhood just before 4 a.m. Multiple homes caught on fire, the San Diego Police Department said.
There was no immediate information about casualties.
“We have jet fuel all over the place,” Dan Eddy, San Diego’s assistant fire chief, said at an early morning news conference. He described the neighborhood as a “gigantic debris field.”
The plane had been attempting to land at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, across a highway from where it crashed. Officials did not immediately say what had caused the crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating.
In October 2021, another small plane en route to the same airport crashed in the town of Santee, northeast of San Diego, clipping a UPS truck and destroying two homes. The driver of the UPS truck and the pilot were killed in that crash.
Talya Minsberg is a Times reporter covering breaking and developing news.
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