A small plane crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood on Thursday morning, killing at least two people on the plane, officials confirmed. The San Diego Police Department said in a statement on X that at least two people were killed in the crash and eight others were injured. The crash also damaged around 10 structures in the neighborhood, police said, setting multiple homes and cars on fire.
A private jet crashed into a neighborhood of U.S. Navy-owned housing in San Diego during foggy weather early Thursday, igniting cars and homes and killing two people while injuring multiple others, authorities said. The plane could hold eight to 10 people but it’s not yet known how many were on board, Assistant San Diego Fire Chief Dan Eddy said at a news conference. Authorities couldn’t say definitively if both of the dead were on the plane.
Assistant Fire Department Chief Dan Eddy said during a news conference that the Cessna 550 made a “direct hit to multiple homes” and vehicles around 4 a.m. local time, causing a “gigantic debris field” in the Tierrasanta neighborhood of San Diego.
